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Why does the archive.org of most YouTube videos fail with "Sorry the Wayback Machine does not have this video (<id>) archived (or not indexed yet)"? #87
I have seen several videos which show as archived, and video metadata does show up, but the video itself doesn't with a magic error hacked into the rendered page:
Sorry the Wayback Machine does not have this video (\<id>) archived (or not indexed yet).
So does this message indicate:
a bug in the Wayback Machine?
they have some more complex algorithm/metric to determine which videos to actually archive or not to save disk space?
some licensing issue?
not enough time has passed since the original archive?
https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/149933/why-does-the-archive-org-of-most-youtube-videos-fail-with-sorry-the-wayback-mac
https://webapps.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4502/why-were-not-customer-support-for-your-favorite-company#comment5091_4503
I have seen several videos which show as archived, and video metadata does show up, but the video itself doesn't with a magic error hacked into the rendered page:
So does this message indicate:
not enough time has passed since the original archive?
Seems unlikely, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKhs-bHOysY (2018) got first archived in 2018: http://web.archive.org/web/20181111184728/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKhs-bHOysY but as of today 2021, I still get the error.
I also tried the direct video link https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/CKhs-bHOysY and it didn't work either.
I did however find some videos that still work, e.g.: https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/d81mEbL8Yw8 but it's just too unreliable, I can't predict which ones will work and which ones won't.
So for now I'll have to stick to https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl + reupload when I find a hot video I want to archive.
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I really wish they would more clearly indicate what is going on. I love Wayback Machine, but sometimes they are crappy.