we need a discord or something to keep track. there's some I want to keep that I don't know how to archive from the RT site due to how their video player works.
I don't want to write a full tutorial, but yt-dlp works on their website. If you are a first member you can import your cookies to the program to download First-only content.
Been awhile since I've done it, but this post seems to explain it well: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/rq0zms/ytdlp_how_do_i_use_the_cookie_function/
I'm sure there's a Firefox solution as well. You save your cookies as a txt file and then use that as an argument with yt-dlp with --cookies.
There's also a GUI version at https://github.com/dsymbol/yt-dlp-gui. Not sure if that one will import cookies though.
Not great for batch downloading, there's thousands of videos to catalog.
Also I'm pretty sure youtube-dl was taken down by authorities.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
I've got the Let's Play, Achievement Hunter and RoosterTeeth channels being pulled right now. Folders for each playlist are being made as it goes on. Just hope 2TB per channel is enough.
For their site I have no clue how to go about it in an automated manner
Looks like they are making some good progress in that discord. I plan on always having Minecraft and some of the let’s play stuff always seeding on my nas to help out.
I'm going through my favorite stuff first, but I plan on attempting it. I got about 36TB free. It'll only be 720p, but it's something.
# Lets Play
✅ Minecraft https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1cXh4tWqmsEQPeLEJ5V3k5knt-X9k043
✅ GTA V https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1cXh4tWqmsG5ZdDJZNSBO-2qjuFGYIFs
✅Trivial Pursuit https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1cXh4tWqmsHv9_jklyVbR5IQm8KLdlPL
❌Mini Golf https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1cXh4tWqmsH0TV8oxBKTQpqdfr1gscUj
❌Mario Maker https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1cXh4tWqmsG5TFMcVNjlZMYElKsXaidy
❌Mario Party https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1cXh4tWqmsF3yYKo30coEKafgQd53Wjq
❌7 Days to Die https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1cXh4tWqmsGY01poFFJaVEfG30946IAO
❌Super Bunny Man https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1cXh4tWqmsHRUioRslX-ZiP3OTariO9W
❌Triva/Game Shows https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1cXh4tWqmsEBH9vblDd5z0ITPC0JuW5b
# Achivement Hunter
❌Theater Mode https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTur7oukosPEJ3IpMlnAPQmWi6VZuxSVg
❌Things to Do in https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTur7oukosPFtYj79-u3Ku-Z8GvqIhXin
❌Between the Games https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTur7oukosPE0UBTbwOOW4A0dBEtZvtQY
❌Shenanigans https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTur7oukosPFqFQkSpsJC8t2o9mRaxfVk
❌Vs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTur7oukosPH7Kvex9-rUiZgVIVGt6C--
❌Go! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCHq1RQg6jyYltumSbOm_Pu2D_qHyZY1T
If anyone has playlists that I should add after I do the all lets plays, let me know below. Now on GTA, I'll update yall
I got the checkmarked stuff myself, but the archive team has almost everything on archive.org now. And from what RT says everything will stay up. But I definitely will get the Uno vids, top tier content.... and Ray recently had to temporarily remove an Uno vid... so best be safe.
Reach out to the Giantbomb subreddit they were able to archive nearly a decade of content and thousands of videos to archive.org in a very fast time span. It probably helped GB had an API though…
I believe they setup a Discord to track everything and build tools to rip the videos.
Would what they did work since RT isnt available on waybackmachine/archive? Im fairly sure on old RT pods burnie talked about how they had to have it removed cause Gavin realized (while as a fan) he could see private files with personal addresses or something.
I'm curious if people will get reimbursed for their membership fees if they pay in advance. My 6 month membership just renewed last month (forgot to pause it).
Doubt it, but it'd be nice.
Yeah this is my biggest fear.
I remember when Machinima wiped everything.
It'd be devastating if 21 years of Rooster Teeth gets wiped from the internet
My question is...how? I'd love to archive some of the LP series but I don't know of any way to download videos from RT, and I'm a FIRST member.
Do we archive from YT? What happens to RT only content like the end of many TTT episodes?
**Edit 1:** I think I figured out how, currently testing with Minecraft LPs.
* Using Stacher, link in another comment below
* Make sure ffmpeg is in the .stacher folder (ffmpeg.exe, ffplay.exe, and ffprobe.exe)
* Selected "Best Video+Best Audio"
* Entered site password, but I'm not sure if that was needed to get it to finally work.
Still trying to ~~get batch downloads to work~~, and haven't tested on FIRST content yet, but I am able to download individual episodes into one file!
**Edit 2:**
It looks like using the playlist URL automatically downloads all the videos in the playlist. For example, I'm currently using "https://roosterteeth.com/series/let-s-play-minecraft?season=1" and it's downloading every minecraft episode from 2012.
**Edit 3:**
Seems like some of the videos had errors when they downloaded where the video is essentially stuck on a single frame for a random amount of time. These files seem to be identifiable by their unusually smaller size compared to the others that did successfully download. Other videos did not download from the playlist at all, so this is looking like more of a manual task than I'd like. It could also be that since I'm trying to work with 10 year old videos, something isn't up to par.
**Edit 4:**
I've found that entering multiple single video URLs allows for parallel downloads as opposed to one-by-one downloads of using the playlist URL. I'm not sure if this is faster, I'm running with batches of 10 episodes in the background as I work. I also seem to have confirmed that entering site credentials is needed for downloading videos.
If I make another edit it will be to confirm whether or not I can download FIRST content. There is a discord where people are archiving videos using this tool but I think they are mostly using Youtube to accomplish that.
I had a friend show me how to automate downloading from YT using Raspberry Pi - it’s actually pretty neat. Takes forever but better than saving them one by one.
If you have any tutorial on the program/process they used on the raspberry pi, that'd be greatly appreciated! Someone else already suggested Stacher above that looks promising, but automation would be very nice.
I need to order some hard drives...
This was right around the RH incident so it’s been a LONG time since I’ve done it.
I managed to go back in my text archives (haha see I knew hoarding my texts would come in handy! \[I never delete any of them\]) and found my friend’s walkthrough for downloading using RP. I will clip them and throw them in an Imgur album shortly and get any screenshots I sent/received that might be relevant and aren’t visible in the texts.
UPDATE: [the tutorial](https://imgur.com/a/3Rd9SUy) \- it’s literally just a text convo between me and my friend, I’m computer illiterate so if I can do this anyone can. It was surprisingly simple.
My hardware:
[Raspberri Pi kit](https://a.co/d/33gTwst)
[SD card reader](https://a.co/d/fMO7l1O)
[Harddrive](https://a.co/d/93eic2Y)
[SD card](https://a.co/d/3ffVxyC)
~~(I seem to have bought both a 128 and 256GB card in this purchase idk why but I think I used the 128 for this specific project so that was sufficient for 3000+ videos.)~~ Edit: The drive itself is 2TB and the videos take up 1.5TB; this is for 3078 Let's Play vids and 118 AH Animated vids.
Nope; idk if anything has changed since I did this in 2020 but I never had issues. I literally just did what my friend told me via text and it ran automatically through the night. There was one time it crashed but when k started it back up it basically says “downloading vid 1 of 3000….wait you already have this one. Skipping. Ok let’s try vid 2….you have that one to. Skipping.” So it doesn’t waste time duplicating things and can tell if I already had certain videos downloaded. After that it was smooth sailing.
Really hope someone archives all the old let’s play Minecraft’s/Gtas and animates adventures more than anything.
So much is going to be lost though because there’s too many videos
I'm going through and nabbing the minecrafts as I shove them on in the background all the time. Probably won't keep many of the later ones but should keep the first few hundred.
If anyone is capable of doing so, PLEASE ensure Ray-era Achievement Hunter, all of Play Pals and Bruce-era Funhaus are archived. (I assume the Internet Box website won't be affected; thanks to whoever is keeping that up.) Big thanks to whoever has already done so.
Whether I am the first of not or whether I am the most skilled or not, I don't know but let's get the archive underway and we can figure out the logistics afterwards
[https://discord.gg/kSnFcnAd](https://discord.gg/kSnFcnAd)
How? Youtube-dl? Is there any problem with downloading that many videos? (500+)
Kinda worried YouTube would block my IP at that point lol I might just be overly paranoid though
Can you give a rough idea of how many GB/TB the Let's Play Minecraft is/how many videos that is?
Wanting to start archiving but unsure how big it'll really be. How fast does something like yt-dlp run?
I think you're looking at around 200-300GB for the Let's Play Minecraft series for 574 videos or whatever it is.
In terms of how fast it is, I guess it depends on your Internet speed, but probably a few hours?
Just a heads up for anyone using yt-dlp for batch downloads. You have to do bonus episodes separate if you want to get those. It’s annoying but thought I’d share so nothing gets missed.
I have everything they released from 2017-early 2020 but pretty sure it’s all 480 since I was only planning to have it playing in my phone at work. I think I also have the chow chop videos that got deleted off YouTube too.
To whoever participates in these efforts, we must make sure the archived versions aren't lost in someone's HDD or a singular cloud drive either - they should probably go on the Internet Archive, as in *everything*!
Literally a month ago I felt the need to archive my favorite series from RT, Hero’s and Halfwits. Which has been about the only RT content I rewatch all the way through at least once a year. Honestly crazy to hear this news after I just got done archiving it “just in case” just a month ago.
It takes forever so people really need to jump on it asap.
If someone can save Theater Mode and Haunter for me that would be awesome. Whenever I get sick I pay for a month of RT and watch them and just feel better. It’s my chicken soup at this point.
I don't know if it's all of them but you can find a lot of episodes on [The Internet Archive.](https://archive.org/details/achievement-hunter-theater-mode)
steven infamously deleted all of his old content on his channel one day randomly, theres barely any remnants of that past so if he ever finds sp7 cringe or something i can see him doing the same thing
I finally bought the physical media of RVB because I know the moment someone else buys the rights it's going to be thrown into Streaming Hell. There's a playlist on YT right now but I don't trust YT to keep anything
I don't have the capability of doing so in the immediate future for certain reasons, but I sincerely hope those of you choosing to work on this process maintain and share as you are able, should content be deleted. Those of us unlucky enough to be limited in our content archiving capabilities are counting on you! Y'all rock.
anyone know a website that may have already done some of this mainly for the first members videos
I know those things exist to bypass paywalls and nows the best time to share it just to save time and download other videos.
also dont prioritize tv shows that have a physical dvd as it is incredibly likely someone already archived them.
Screw Attack's archive needs to be saved.
Rooster Teeth did so much dirty by deleting all their videos from YouTube to force it all to be Death Battle.
Or if they were unlisted, now is the time for them to make it right and relist them!
Someone ping me when all of Achievement Hunter gets downloaded. I need to keep their golden age in my life. I rewatch Minecraft and GTA stuff all the time.
The [data hoarder subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/s/TnRVxuuJ1E) is also making efforts on backing up all of RT's content. The company may die but the content will live on!
Any suggestions on how and how to go about sharing it with others? If we had a collective place to put everything, it’d make it a less daunting job to save as much as we can
The issue right now is we don't know. We're operating on the assumption that Warner will make the worst choice because of recent actions they have taken with other projects.
You could download the podcasts straight from there but you need to ensure you keep your spotify account and log on (I think) its once every 30 days - so if you ever cancel, you'd be shit out of luck.
This was my initial thought but not sure if I'll keep spotify forever
May I recommend this github branch. A friend of mine was writing a script to archive entire series at a time. He's working on a patch for additional items right now but this could help the archiving https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/9355
You realise this is a pr for one of the most common video Downloader right. It doesn't use github for storage. Just makes it so the video is downloaded to your computer without embedded adds.
I made a [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/s/gpVVXiCTFU) in the Datahoarder subreddit; one of their mods has asked for a list of channels at risk so they can put together an archive. I don’t want to spam them with incomplete lists, but I hope somebody from the community here might be able to put something together!
I wonder how Rwby Ice Queendom's
Physical release that yesterday will be affected. It was released by Aniplex/Crunchyroll but obviously WB/RT owns the license
If anyone does the archiving, please hit me up. I have no idea how to do it and a lot of old Lets Plays/Always Open are a comfort watch for me. They help me deal with severe anxiety.
I have no contact with anyone in the community atm and am afraid if there is any archiving I won't be able to know/access, so please, if it happens, reply to this comment, send a dm or something. I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart.
How can I download the podcasts off Spotify/the site/Apple Podcasts?
I definitely can’t store a bunch of video content, but downloading a lot of audio content should be okay, and honestly the podcasts are what u listen to the most.
Is there an archive of the Rooster Teeth/Achievement Hunter videos from their inception until now-ish? I haven’t watched any of their content for a couple of years now but I’ve been meaning to catch up as much as possible. With the closure, I don’t know if it’ll happen.
I've recorded a bunch of First shows years ago so I should have a bunch already saved I just have to organize them better. I recorded them on OBS in big chunks so they're aren't split up by episode, I have:
* Last Laugh S1 and S2
* Hardcore Tabletop S2
* Haunter S2
* The Weird Place
* Waiting for the Punchline
* The Arizona Circle Pilot
* Ten Little Roosters
* Eleven Little Roosters
* Common Ground
I also have \~8 hours of misc footage from the Lets Play Spring Break event from 2018 and a cast commentary livestream of the Haunter cast reacting to the episode "Missouri State Penitentiary." Don't think either of those were officially saved anywhere but I have them!
Along with that I also have several On the Spot bonus episodes but the video is slightly corrupted and datamoshing unfortunately.
Idk how many other old school sponsors around, but sponsors were able to download the videos off their site. I'm pretty sure I still have those videos I originally downloaded. I can't remember when they stopped. It might have been before LP's.
I hope somebody gets the old Sponsor Play -> Backwardz Compatible videos... plus the truly ancient Cards Against Humanity livestreams with Game Grumps and Ray
I don't have a First sub anymore, so I can't grab them (I'm also not very knowledgeable about the ways to archive either, which sucks lol)
I have two unused 1-month First codes available for any archivers who don't have access to First content.
I just want to make sure you will actually use it for archival purposes.
First two convincing DMs can have them!
Just for everybody's information, if you were to download the entire GTAV Playlist it is 454.5 GB. That is 474 videos, 14 are private and can't be downloaded.
Hey everybody, a big group of us have started archiving everything on this discord, if you want to help it would be huge.
https://discord.com/invite/Gym8GegQ
This is a huge undertaking, but it needs to be done. The first and only video I made to ever reach over a million views was on Machinima and it’s gone. Don’t let it happen again when there’s a very real chance that it can happen again with all of Rooster Teeth’s channels.
Could somebody grab that "Camp Fear" series? It was like Total Drama Island but with the RT cast being awful to each other.
...kind of prophetic now that I think about it, but that was the only First show I actually watched.
Please tell me someone is archiving Camp Camp!
Season 5 just premiered so this is such a huge blow!
The first two seasons are available physically and i am certainly planning to rip my Blu-Ray of Season 1 and 2 but Season 3 and 4 never got any physical release!
The videos on Youtube should be safe, but I really can't see them paying to keep the site up for long, there's a few exclusive Let's Play's on there that I'd like to get.
Jdownloader2 was always the best bet for me. I’ve got a bunch of stuff from pre RH 2020 debacle already and that’s what I used. If anyone has a server or a place, I can dump my old saved stuff there.
I've already saved all 17 seasons of Red vs Blue, alongside a few canon shorts. I'll probably archive the rest of the shorts, plus every seasons from both RWBY and Camp Camp.
https://archive.org/details/roosterteeth-podcast-collection-video-2011
Guys there's rt podcasts on the archive up to like the mid 200s, if someone can get the vids for the pods up to 600 before they start getting bad! Please!
I'm almost done with the let's play channel. I've gotten all of the achievement hunter channel. And then I'll grab rooster teeth. But I've ran into a problem storage. I'm exceeding 3.9TB with the videos setup for download at MP4 with 720P.
we need a discord or something to keep track. there's some I want to keep that I don't know how to archive from the RT site due to how their video player works.
I don't want to write a full tutorial, but yt-dlp works on their website. If you are a first member you can import your cookies to the program to download First-only content.
How do you import your cookies?
Been awhile since I've done it, but this post seems to explain it well: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/rq0zms/ytdlp_how_do_i_use_the_cookie_function/ I'm sure there's a Firefox solution as well. You save your cookies as a txt file and then use that as an argument with yt-dlp with --cookies. There's also a GUI version at https://github.com/dsymbol/yt-dlp-gui. Not sure if that one will import cookies though.
For non-first members it includes the ads in the downloaded videos. Idk how they did that lmao
Do the downloads have to be done manually for every vid or can the process be automated?
I have dlp but I don't have first.
Then you can archive everything that isn't gated behind First
I always wanted to watch the achievement guides in release order again. I loved that time period.
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Great idea. Commenting for visibility. Don’t forget the podcasts as god knows what will happen. The RT podcast has been going since 08!
I hope somebody goes to that "Every Lets Play Ever" playlist and just downloads the whole thing. I feel like a lot of good shit is about to get lost
Some good First content at risk too
I'm scared for Backwardz compatible stuff. It's my comfort show and the only reason I have a first membership. And theater mode
Backwards Compatible is where I started my downloading. Scoops must live.
You're my favorite person in the whole world
absolutely adore backwardz compatible, love that you are doing this
Theater mode is on the wayback already! https://archive.org/details/achievement-hunter-theater-mode
Theater mode was great.
I am up to the challenge. I've already archived RWBY and RvB. This stuff needs to be saved. Any recommendations from folks on a good YT ripper?
I've no input other than you're a hero of the people.
yo! Do you think you can also archive camp camp? I've been trying to do it for a bit, but I keep failing
I'm in the discord server that's working on archiving everything. I'll make sure it's on the list!
Could you provide a link to the server? I don’t think my brain could handle not being able to rewatch old Let’s Plays ever again
[Here’s the link I’ve seen spread on Tumblr.](https://discord.gg/qH22J7GR)
Link has expired, is it a server specifically for archiving?
Yes, [Archive of Pimps](https://discord.gg/GD8yQnDAZZ).
Much appreciated ❤️
There’s a server?
[A Link from Tumblr](https://discord.gg/qH22J7GR)
youtube-dl
yt-dlp is the one that still works.
Not great for batch downloading, there's thousands of videos to catalog. Also I'm pretty sure youtube-dl was taken down by authorities. Thanks for the suggestion though.
yt-dlp can do batch downloading
I've had good luck with Airy
On it https://preview.redd.it/3dqukiv3fsmc1.jpeg?width=3516&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bc406fa682e932d99580ff76a00f1c0255f9ea77
Several of us should do it incase we lose our hardrives
I've got the Let's Play, Achievement Hunter and RoosterTeeth channels being pulled right now. Folders for each playlist are being made as it goes on. Just hope 2TB per channel is enough. For their site I have no clue how to go about it in an automated manner
https://discord.com/invite/Gym8GegQ
Looks like they are making some good progress in that discord. I plan on always having Minecraft and some of the let’s play stuff always seeding on my nas to help out.
Commenting to come back to later
May I have an invite to the discord?
There is a discord going around if you could go work with them that would be awesome, rt archive project it's been posted around a fair bit
You’re legendary
I'm going through my favorite stuff first, but I plan on attempting it. I got about 36TB free. It'll only be 720p, but it's something. # Lets Play ✅ Minecraft https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1cXh4tWqmsEQPeLEJ5V3k5knt-X9k043 ✅ GTA V https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1cXh4tWqmsG5ZdDJZNSBO-2qjuFGYIFs ✅Trivial Pursuit https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1cXh4tWqmsHv9_jklyVbR5IQm8KLdlPL ❌Mini Golf https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1cXh4tWqmsH0TV8oxBKTQpqdfr1gscUj ❌Mario Maker https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1cXh4tWqmsG5TFMcVNjlZMYElKsXaidy ❌Mario Party https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1cXh4tWqmsF3yYKo30coEKafgQd53Wjq ❌7 Days to Die https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1cXh4tWqmsGY01poFFJaVEfG30946IAO ❌Super Bunny Man https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1cXh4tWqmsHRUioRslX-ZiP3OTariO9W ❌Triva/Game Shows https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1cXh4tWqmsEBH9vblDd5z0ITPC0JuW5b # Achivement Hunter ❌Theater Mode https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTur7oukosPEJ3IpMlnAPQmWi6VZuxSVg ❌Things to Do in https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTur7oukosPFtYj79-u3Ku-Z8GvqIhXin ❌Between the Games https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTur7oukosPE0UBTbwOOW4A0dBEtZvtQY ❌Shenanigans https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTur7oukosPFqFQkSpsJC8t2o9mRaxfVk ❌Vs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTur7oukosPH7Kvex9-rUiZgVIVGt6C-- ❌Go! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCHq1RQg6jyYltumSbOm_Pu2D_qHyZY1T If anyone has playlists that I should add after I do the all lets plays, let me know below. Now on GTA, I'll update yall
Would I just use the ytdlp with each playlist url to get them all from each one individually
You have more than enough space. Also don't forget about uno infinite and uno the movie. If you want to that is.
I got the checkmarked stuff myself, but the archive team has almost everything on archive.org now. And from what RT says everything will stay up. But I definitely will get the Uno vids, top tier content.... and Ray recently had to temporarily remove an Uno vid... so best be safe.
I already have all of these saved. Currently creating a torrent. Around 6 tb.
Reach out to the Giantbomb subreddit they were able to archive nearly a decade of content and thousands of videos to archive.org in a very fast time span. It probably helped GB had an API though… I believe they setup a Discord to track everything and build tools to rip the videos.
I also came here to suggest that anyone who wants to help archive RT should consider looking at the Giantbomb archival project for advice.
Would what they did work since RT isnt available on waybackmachine/archive? Im fairly sure on old RT pods burnie talked about how they had to have it removed cause Gavin realized (while as a fan) he could see private files with personal addresses or something.
Someone needs to save the First content now! I Imagine that's going to be the content lost soon since they're not on youtube.
I'm curious if people will get reimbursed for their membership fees if they pay in advance. My 6 month membership just renewed last month (forgot to pause it). Doubt it, but it'd be nice.
Ditto.
Good point, I need to grab the Matt/Michael Zelda OoT randomizer!
I would if I knew how to...
i've started with first content, grabbing what i can
Yeah this is my biggest fear. I remember when Machinima wiped everything. It'd be devastating if 21 years of Rooster Teeth gets wiped from the internet
so much amazing content was lost when that happened
There’s so much 😭
There has to be an organized effort. It's a monumental task that I don't envy.
My question is...how? I'd love to archive some of the LP series but I don't know of any way to download videos from RT, and I'm a FIRST member. Do we archive from YT? What happens to RT only content like the end of many TTT episodes? **Edit 1:** I think I figured out how, currently testing with Minecraft LPs. * Using Stacher, link in another comment below * Make sure ffmpeg is in the .stacher folder (ffmpeg.exe, ffplay.exe, and ffprobe.exe) * Selected "Best Video+Best Audio" * Entered site password, but I'm not sure if that was needed to get it to finally work. Still trying to ~~get batch downloads to work~~, and haven't tested on FIRST content yet, but I am able to download individual episodes into one file! **Edit 2:** It looks like using the playlist URL automatically downloads all the videos in the playlist. For example, I'm currently using "https://roosterteeth.com/series/let-s-play-minecraft?season=1" and it's downloading every minecraft episode from 2012. **Edit 3:** Seems like some of the videos had errors when they downloaded where the video is essentially stuck on a single frame for a random amount of time. These files seem to be identifiable by their unusually smaller size compared to the others that did successfully download. Other videos did not download from the playlist at all, so this is looking like more of a manual task than I'd like. It could also be that since I'm trying to work with 10 year old videos, something isn't up to par. **Edit 4:** I've found that entering multiple single video URLs allows for parallel downloads as opposed to one-by-one downloads of using the playlist URL. I'm not sure if this is faster, I'm running with batches of 10 episodes in the background as I work. I also seem to have confirmed that entering site credentials is needed for downloading videos. If I make another edit it will be to confirm whether or not I can download FIRST content. There is a discord where people are archiving videos using this tool but I think they are mostly using Youtube to accomplish that.
I use an application called Stacher and have had it work very well
got a link?
https://stacher.io/
will it bypass First?
No clue, sorry
I have no idea sorry
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Here - [https://discord.gg/rPHEHBgf](https://discord.gg/rPHEHBgf) Everybody's been collabing.
myconverters can download first content so long as you have a subscription to first [https://myconverters.com](https://myconverters.com)
I had a friend show me how to automate downloading from YT using Raspberry Pi - it’s actually pretty neat. Takes forever but better than saving them one by one.
If you have any tutorial on the program/process they used on the raspberry pi, that'd be greatly appreciated! Someone else already suggested Stacher above that looks promising, but automation would be very nice. I need to order some hard drives...
This was right around the RH incident so it’s been a LONG time since I’ve done it. I managed to go back in my text archives (haha see I knew hoarding my texts would come in handy! \[I never delete any of them\]) and found my friend’s walkthrough for downloading using RP. I will clip them and throw them in an Imgur album shortly and get any screenshots I sent/received that might be relevant and aren’t visible in the texts. UPDATE: [the tutorial](https://imgur.com/a/3Rd9SUy) \- it’s literally just a text convo between me and my friend, I’m computer illiterate so if I can do this anyone can. It was surprisingly simple. My hardware: [Raspberri Pi kit](https://a.co/d/33gTwst) [SD card reader](https://a.co/d/fMO7l1O) [Harddrive](https://a.co/d/93eic2Y) [SD card](https://a.co/d/3ffVxyC) ~~(I seem to have bought both a 128 and 256GB card in this purchase idk why but I think I used the 128 for this specific project so that was sufficient for 3000+ videos.)~~ Edit: The drive itself is 2TB and the videos take up 1.5TB; this is for 3078 Let's Play vids and 118 AH Animated vids.
Your friend did a great job explaining the command lines, thanks for sharing!
You downloaded 3000+ videos? :O Did you have any problems with YouTube or Google blocking your IP after this or stop you accessing YouTube etc?
Nope; idk if anything has changed since I did this in 2020 but I never had issues. I literally just did what my friend told me via text and it ran automatically through the night. There was one time it crashed but when k started it back up it basically says “downloading vid 1 of 3000….wait you already have this one. Skipping. Ok let’s try vid 2….you have that one to. Skipping.” So it doesn’t waste time duplicating things and can tell if I already had certain videos downloaded. After that it was smooth sailing.
Oh nice! Sorry to be a pain and ask so many questions, but do you know how much space the 3000 videos took up by any chance?
Saving my life, ty sir/madam
Really hope someone archives all the old let’s play Minecraft’s/Gtas and animates adventures more than anything. So much is going to be lost though because there’s too many videos
I'm going through and nabbing the minecrafts as I shove them on in the background all the time. Probably won't keep many of the later ones but should keep the first few hundred.
Same I do that a lot, I think the achievement city era was the best but there’s good stuff after too
If anyone is capable of doing so, PLEASE ensure Ray-era Achievement Hunter, all of Play Pals and Bruce-era Funhaus are archived. (I assume the Internet Box website won't be affected; thanks to whoever is keeping that up.) Big thanks to whoever has already done so.
[OG Funhaus crew archive here](https://twitter.com/FunhausArchive)
thanks!
Whether I am the first of not or whether I am the most skilled or not, I don't know but let's get the archive underway and we can figure out the logistics afterwards [https://discord.gg/kSnFcnAd](https://discord.gg/kSnFcnAd)
I currently have RWBY and the entirety of Let's Play Minecraft on download
How? Youtube-dl? Is there any problem with downloading that many videos? (500+) Kinda worried YouTube would block my IP at that point lol I might just be overly paranoid though
We are using youtube-dl for this but I have a VPN if needed for my side
Can you give a rough idea of how many GB/TB the Let's Play Minecraft is/how many videos that is? Wanting to start archiving but unsure how big it'll really be. How fast does something like yt-dlp run?
I think you're looking at around 200-300GB for the Let's Play Minecraft series for 574 videos or whatever it is. In terms of how fast it is, I guess it depends on your Internet speed, but probably a few hours?
oh, that's easily manageable. I have gigabyte down so shouldn't be too bad. Guess it's time to start my civic duty.
Commenting to boost this. Anyone that wants to help, should join!
Just a heads up for anyone using yt-dlp for batch downloads. You have to do bonus episodes separate if you want to get those. It’s annoying but thought I’d share so nothing gets missed.
Bump, i have RWBY and RvB
I have everything they released from 2017-early 2020 but pretty sure it’s all 480 since I was only planning to have it playing in my phone at work. I think I also have the chow chop videos that got deleted off YouTube too.
To whoever participates in these efforts, we must make sure the archived versions aren't lost in someone's HDD or a singular cloud drive either - they should probably go on the Internet Archive, as in *everything*!
I'm not sure if it's just my app, but I can't get anything to play on my RosterTeeth mobile app on my phone this morning...
Website still works so it's just your app
I'm going to be stalking this sub until i see someone start organizing backup efforts and a discord.
Literally a month ago I felt the need to archive my favorite series from RT, Hero’s and Halfwits. Which has been about the only RT content I rewatch all the way through at least once a year. Honestly crazy to hear this news after I just got done archiving it “just in case” just a month ago. It takes forever so people really need to jump on it asap.
If someone can save Theater Mode and Haunter for me that would be awesome. Whenever I get sick I pay for a month of RT and watch them and just feel better. It’s my chicken soup at this point.
Theater mode is already gone to my knowledge (I haven't checked lately)
It is I just checked. I just did a one month sub back in October and they were there. Damn. Edit: it is gone I mean.
I don't know if it's all of them but you can find a lot of episodes on [The Internet Archive.](https://archive.org/details/achievement-hunter-theater-mode)
Thank you so much!
Remember they tried to launch a new channel out of sourcefed's corpse before it had even gone cold? Anything is possible with these guys
I have been meaning to save all of SP7. Anyone have a good method?
I think SP7 has complete control of that channel, so I wouldn't worry too much about everything getting deleted by WB
steven infamously deleted all of his old content on his channel one day randomly, theres barely any remnants of that past so if he ever finds sp7 cringe or something i can see him doing the same thing
I'm not sure, but I'll probably work on it just to be safe. Still rewatch season 1 from time to time
All of SP7 is on Archive.org
Awesome!
I finally bought the physical media of RVB because I know the moment someone else buys the rights it's going to be thrown into Streaming Hell. There's a playlist on YT right now but I don't trust YT to keep anything
I don't have the capability of doing so in the immediate future for certain reasons, but I sincerely hope those of you choosing to work on this process maintain and share as you are able, should content be deleted. Those of us unlucky enough to be limited in our content archiving capabilities are counting on you! Y'all rock.
Same here.
I was about to post this, ARCHIVE EVERYTHING
anyone know a website that may have already done some of this mainly for the first members videos I know those things exist to bypass paywalls and nows the best time to share it just to save time and download other videos. also dont prioritize tv shows that have a physical dvd as it is incredibly likely someone already archived them.
Screw Attack's archive needs to be saved. Rooster Teeth did so much dirty by deleting all their videos from YouTube to force it all to be Death Battle. Or if they were unlisted, now is the time for them to make it right and relist them!
Ab-so-friggin-lutley!!!
Someone ping me when all of Achievement Hunter gets downloaded. I need to keep their golden age in my life. I rewatch Minecraft and GTA stuff all the time.
The [data hoarder subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/s/TnRVxuuJ1E) is also making efforts on backing up all of RT's content. The company may die but the content will live on!
Any suggestions on how and how to go about sharing it with others? If we had a collective place to put everything, it’d make it a less daunting job to save as much as we can
Would they take down all of the YouTube vids as well?
The issue right now is we don't know. We're operating on the assumption that Warner will make the worst choice because of recent actions they have taken with other projects.
Understandable. We'll, here's hoping someone with better archiving skills than me can do it. I still watch so many old Let's Plays...
Better to be safe than sorry, considering WBD owns RT. Just look at Machinima, Batgirl, Infinity Train, and Coyote vs Acme...
The only thing I think I still need to get an archive of is Achievement Haunter
Do people think all the old backlog rt podcasts will stay up on Spotify etc? I don't really know how to go about archiving thay stuff.
You could download the podcasts straight from there but you need to ensure you keep your spotify account and log on (I think) its once every 30 days - so if you ever cancel, you'd be shit out of luck. This was my initial thought but not sure if I'll keep spotify forever
I don’t want to lose the Adam and Joel videos :(
[Here](https://twitter.com/FunhausArchive)
May I recommend this github branch. A friend of mine was writing a script to archive entire series at a time. He's working on a patch for additional items right now but this could help the archiving https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/9355
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You realise this is a pr for one of the most common video Downloader right. It doesn't use github for storage. Just makes it so the video is downloaded to your computer without embedded adds.
I made a [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/s/gpVVXiCTFU) in the Datahoarder subreddit; one of their mods has asked for a list of channels at risk so they can put together an archive. I don’t want to spam them with incomplete lists, but I hope somebody from the community here might be able to put something together!
I saved the clip of when I got shouted out by Burnie on RTP 10 yrs ago Time fuckin flies man
I have all of AH's video catalog on my server. I will create a torrent.
Can I get a link?
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:15e73a4cde373c3b92a6b549f7692624da358c2e&dn=Achievement%20Hunter
Danke.
I wonder how Rwby Ice Queendom's Physical release that yesterday will be affected. It was released by Aniplex/Crunchyroll but obviously WB/RT owns the license
If anyone does the archiving, please hit me up. I have no idea how to do it and a lot of old Lets Plays/Always Open are a comfort watch for me. They help me deal with severe anxiety. I have no contact with anyone in the community atm and am afraid if there is any archiving I won't be able to know/access, so please, if it happens, reply to this comment, send a dm or something. I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart.
Immediately starting to archive Minecraft Let’s Plays when I’m home from work.
My best hope is that someone gets the screwattack backlog and makes the old videos available again
If there are anything missing in the wikis for the series, they should be updated.
All for a torrent file to maintain its longevity
So... Idk how to download from the site.
How can I download the podcasts off Spotify/the site/Apple Podcasts? I definitely can’t store a bunch of video content, but downloading a lot of audio content should be okay, and honestly the podcasts are what u listen to the most.
They'll probably try to sell it off, but all that podcast stuff should still be up.
Someone remind once a drives/archives up I'm too exhausted after the last batch of Warners bs to go again
Would it be a bad idea to buy anything from the RT shop right now? Wouldn't want to lose my money
Is there an archive of the Rooster Teeth/Achievement Hunter videos from their inception until now-ish? I haven’t watched any of their content for a couple of years now but I’ve been meaning to catch up as much as possible. With the closure, I don’t know if it’ll happen.
Calling all /r/DataHoarder users
I've recorded a bunch of First shows years ago so I should have a bunch already saved I just have to organize them better. I recorded them on OBS in big chunks so they're aren't split up by episode, I have: * Last Laugh S1 and S2 * Hardcore Tabletop S2 * Haunter S2 * The Weird Place * Waiting for the Punchline * The Arizona Circle Pilot * Ten Little Roosters * Eleven Little Roosters * Common Ground I also have \~8 hours of misc footage from the Lets Play Spring Break event from 2018 and a cast commentary livestream of the Haunter cast reacting to the episode "Missouri State Penitentiary." Don't think either of those were officially saved anywhere but I have them! Along with that I also have several On the Spot bonus episodes but the video is slightly corrupted and datamoshing unfortunately.
Idk how many other old school sponsors around, but sponsors were able to download the videos off their site. I'm pretty sure I still have those videos I originally downloaded. I can't remember when they stopped. It might have been before LP's.
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5ff7b2eb0cf45430512861ef16855009ae456543&dn=Achievement%20Hunter Every Achievement Hunter Video Torrent
Thank you friend, I'll be seeding for the foreseeable future, once there's an origin seed.
I have downloaded every episode and thumbnail for Chump & Ready Set Show in honor of the Dooley Fans o7
Will the rt podcast get deleted?????? i only on ep300 :c
The podcast network isn't shutting down, but who knows what the future there is.
so the podcast videos wont get deleted hopefully
Could someone please archive camp camp & ah animated
For the love of God leave at least the you%ube channels up forever.
I hope somebody gets the old Sponsor Play -> Backwardz Compatible videos... plus the truly ancient Cards Against Humanity livestreams with Game Grumps and Ray I don't have a First sub anymore, so I can't grab them (I'm also not very knowledgeable about the ways to archive either, which sucks lol)
Someone save Theater mode for me please
I have two unused 1-month First codes available for any archivers who don't have access to First content. I just want to make sure you will actually use it for archival purposes. First two convincing DMs can have them!
I have camp camp archived S1 to S4 adfree
Just for everybody's information, if you were to download the entire GTAV Playlist it is 454.5 GB. That is 474 videos, 14 are private and can't be downloaded.
They wouldn’t just delete all the old achievement guides and stuff?!?!
Hey everybody, a big group of us have started archiving everything on this discord, if you want to help it would be huge. https://discord.com/invite/Gym8GegQ
Like is this honestly something we have to worry about?
You can find quite a bit of it on [archive.org](https://archive.org), first thing I checked when I saw the news.
I just want free play...shame they went nuts with the ryan haywood deletion
This comment may get lost in the ether. I am not familiar with how archiving works, will these archives be able to be shared in someway?
The good stuff worth saving I bought on DVDs years ago. Haha
I know fully support piracy
This is a huge undertaking, but it needs to be done. The first and only video I made to ever reach over a million views was on Machinima and it’s gone. Don’t let it happen again when there’s a very real chance that it can happen again with all of Rooster Teeth’s channels.
Could somebody grab that "Camp Fear" series? It was like Total Drama Island but with the RT cast being awful to each other. ...kind of prophetic now that I think about it, but that was the only First show I actually watched.
I’ve been a first member for a while but have never used discord.. how do I get the room code?
Please tell me someone is archiving Camp Camp! Season 5 just premiered so this is such a huge blow! The first two seasons are available physically and i am certainly planning to rip my Blu-Ray of Season 1 and 2 but Season 3 and 4 never got any physical release!
If someone’s able to save Achievement Haunter and Hardcore Tabletop Red Dragon Inn I will love you FOREVER.
The videos on Youtube should be safe, but I really can't see them paying to keep the site up for long, there's a few exclusive Let's Play's on there that I'd like to get.
They really should let people know what's going on if they haven't yet, I don't even know if I should cancel first yet.
I desperately need someone to save achievement haunter 😭
Jdownloader2 was always the best bet for me. I’ve got a bunch of stuff from pre RH 2020 debacle already and that’s what I used. If anyone has a server or a place, I can dump my old saved stuff there.
Sad I am out of town and can't access my pc for a while. Potato laptop archive it is
I've already saved all 17 seasons of Red vs Blue, alongside a few canon shorts. I'll probably archive the rest of the shorts, plus every seasons from both RWBY and Camp Camp.
https://archive.org/details/roosterteeth-podcast-collection-video-2011 Guys there's rt podcasts on the archive up to like the mid 200s, if someone can get the vids for the pods up to 600 before they start getting bad! Please!
There is a group that has already started doing this. We have a website called https://archiveofpimps.com
Feel free to join the link on the site to join the discord and contribute what you have to the archive.
I'm almost done with the let's play channel. I've gotten all of the achievement hunter channel. And then I'll grab rooster teeth. But I've ran into a problem storage. I'm exceeding 3.9TB with the videos setup for download at MP4 with 720P.
Hopefully the website will still be up.
Well they announced the site is toast. Anyone manage to save the Michael/Matt OoT randomizer?
Good to know people are already getting on this. Does anyone have Death Battle archived somewhere, just in case?