How to identify “unavailable" videos on yt? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 5 months ago by GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I hope this is the proper place to ask, though probably only indirectly on topic for this community.

What I am looking for is a way or tool to extract from a YouTube playlist the information which of my saved videos (usually very niche music from about a decade ago) are no longer available in it (so that I might procure them elsewhere).

With google being google, and the condensed information of "x videos are no longer available" that is displayed, I am fairly sure the information isnt gone gone, just hidden from the user.

Is there a way to get at that info?

Thanks in advance

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[-] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What I've done in the past is to copy the URL of the unavailable video (if it's still accessible via the playlist entry, sometimes it isn't which is annoying) and feed it into the Wayback Machine in the hopes that it got archived at some point. The video stream isn't usually available that way, but at least the page title sometimes is, and then I can search for other versions of it.