Download your favourite YouTube videos
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- 284
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- 127
- Submitted by
- surprisetalk
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- Nov 5, 2026
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- criminallyvulgar.dev
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Trending history
Download your favourite YouTube videos was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 5, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 96 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #5 of 30, reached on Nov 5, 21:22 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 6, 14:22 UTC.
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Most of my YouTube playlists say something like "15 unavailable videos are hidden", or about ~10% for a 5 years old playlist. The same ratio holds true for most bookmarks of YouTube videos I have. There's videos from ~15 years ago that I consider gone for good - lost to the great copyright apocalypse - having been…
Downloading your favourite stuff is absolutely what you should do, but it doesn't solve the bigger problem. Many from my generation, who grew up during an era of information scarcity, have huge stashes of hoarded data. But what can we do with it? There is no way to legally share it, so we take it with us in our…
> ytdl-sub > This is the only yt-dlp wrapper that allowed me to properly maintain the Playlist structure to any extent I have the same requirement and it's possible to do it with the default yt-dlp: yt-dlp --embed-metadata --parse-metadata "playlist_index:%(track_number)s" "PLAYLIST_URL"
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Is Download your favourite YouTube videos trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 6, 14:22 UTC, after 2 days of trending.
What is the highest rank Download your favourite YouTube videos reached?
#5 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 5, 21:22 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has Download your favourite YouTube videos been trending?
It was first seen on Nov 5, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (96 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
284 points and 127 comments; submitted by surprisetalk on Nov 5, 2026.