[–] 4 points 1 year ago*

Liked Videos and Liked Music are private playlists, they have a generic URL and you can only access them by being logged in. I have two methods to download Liked Videos:

  • Install a desktop app video downloader, most of them have the option to download an entire playlist.

  • They also have an option to add a cookies file so you can download private playlists, such as Liked Videos or Watch Later

  • Log in to YouTube in your browser

  • Export the cookies from the browser

  • Import them to the desktop app

  • Download Liked Videos

That's what you're supposed to do, however i never got that to work. If it doesn't work, you can transfer all your liked videos from the private playlist to a public playlist. Here's what i do:

  • Create a new playlist called Downloads, and make it public; it now has its own specific URL, unlike the generic URL of Liked VIdeos

  • Install the YouTube Multiselect browser extention

  • Use Multiselect to select every video in Liked Videos and add it to Downloads

  • Use the desktop app to download the Downloads playlist

This is how i download my private playlists like Watch Later or Liked Videos, i assume it also works for Liked Music

  • source
  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago*

    My thinking is that i'll start deleting stuff when i run out of space, which it turns out will never happen because 4Tb is apparently enough to store more movies than i'll ever want to watch.

    So 2k+ movies are just sitting there passively seeding in the background and i just kinda let them. I really don't know which ones are rare, but surely i must have saved a couple torrents from dying over the years. I know there's a lot of churn in seeders so i feel good being long-term

  • source
  • parent
  • context