Add support for videos saved with Internet Archive Wayback Machine

[zayuim]

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Heres some examples of URL's saved with wayback:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150517183426/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V46KYxFav24
https://web.archive.org/web/20071015051038/http://youtube.com:80/watch?v=JdLCEwEFCMU
https://web.archive.org/web/20110531000748/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVUnpkvgHaw&gl=US&hl=en&has_verified=1

[yan12125]

Wayback machine uses a fixed pattern for YouTube videos. Ex: https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/bVUnpkvgHaw

[zayuim]

This is very useful information. You just take anything after the watch?v= and put it on the end of "https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/".

I've just done this for one of the videos and aria2 will download it!

Is it going to be possible to have this in youtube-dl in the future? IDK if it helps but the video format is VP8 and audio is Vorbis.

[bato3]

webarchive suports also own video style:
https://archive.org/embed/TokiWoKakeruShoujo

[mmtsuchi]

Hello. It should be very simple since you have links to directly download medias. They are shown in "Download Options" section on the web page.
Links look like "https://archive.org/download/movie_name/movie_name(*).mp4"

[ajacraig2011]

Request: https://web.archive.org/web/20131005025752/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehk1OKlMuWY

[carestad]

Has anyone made this work with youtube-dl or any other tool?

[jonpatterns]

There is a way to find a direct link to the video embedded in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine if it's using jw player. From there the video gives the option to download.

Details here:

https://bugthinking.com/how-to-save-a-video-from-jwplayer-website/

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At the moment youtube-dl just sees the url and strips it to the Youtube video link, then tries to download from Youtube. This will often fail; as a reason for looking on Wayback is when a video has been removed from Youtube.

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@ajacraig2011 The video at https://web.archive.org/web/20131005025752/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehk1OKlMuWY doesn't appear to be working on Wayback - does it play for you?

[NatoBoram]

Oh, thanks y'all for this knowledge. It allowed me to download Microsoft's anti-open source propaganda video A Few Perspectives on OpenOffice.org.

[Blakeinstein]

Is this fixed? ydl fails to fetch anything from this archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200225142705/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFK8fhTsViU&gl=US&hl=en

I even tried web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/cFK8fhTsViU