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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Why should I use a rented VPS to use tubeup or any other youtube downloading script? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://github.com/bibanon/tubeup

The description here says "This script strongly recommends Linux or some sort of POSIX system (such as macOS), preferably from a rented VPS and not your personal machine or phone."

Why should I waste my money getting a VPS? I want to download entire channels directly to my personal machine because that's where I save all my stuff to.

Am I making some kind of newbie mistake?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Id guess it goes against the terms of use and can get your ip banned.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Have you looked at "Tube Archivist" at all?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

backup now or perish your data

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I leverage a VPN and yt-dlp.

If helpful I can share the scripts I use to download new videos from channels. If you are seeking to download an entire channel... you need to consider the bandwidth that the VPS service will charge. I say use your home machine, a good VPN, and have at it.