I haven't used it before, but this apparently does it:
That being said, it only indexes what users have submitted. So while it has some other unlisted videos from Julian Smith, as of this writing, nobody has submitted "I'm a Morning Person".
this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2025
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No problem. It looks like you're not the only frustrated user trying to find various of his old videos:
You'd need a constantly growing database of all the videos on there, rechecking all of them every once in a while to see if they are still/now unlisted... maybe if you had infinite youtube api credits... maybe.
Yeah, that sounds unreasonable. I guess I'll have to use yt-dlp more to backup videos I enjoy.
Yeah, and it still wouldn't help you for deleted/privated stuff. You have to mirror the good stuff if you want it around.
Hmm.
If it's downloaded and all the associated metadata embedded
which yt-dlp does have the ability to do, but isn't the default
it'd be possible to index downloaded videos and create some kind of search engine for magnet links for saved YouTube videos.
EDIT: Oh, though I don't know whether yt-dlp tries to create identical files on different people's systems. If it embeds a "downloaded" timestamp or something like that, there might not be a single hash that refers to all downloaded copies.
There's a video from 14 years ago I wish I could find again but it was removed for ToS violations (I guess because a kid pukes? I don't know). It made me really want to start archiving stuff on there
Yeah, now that I got the storage I save a whole lot more locally. GOG offline installers is probably the largest folder on my NAS though. :)