TheTechRobo/youtubevideofinder

If a video is archived, a link to the metadata page should also be linked

ellieknowsyou opened this issue · 4 comments

ellieknowsyou commented
If a video is archived, a link to the metadata page should also be linked
TheTechRobo commented

Which metadata page?

squishysnuggles commented

The archive of the video's yt page on IA

TheTechRobo commented

Ah, do you mean the watch URL rather than the link to the fakeurl on the wayback machine?

There are two main problems:

  1. the watch page is *really* janky and sometimes doesn't work when the fakeurl does (though we could link both)
  2. There are a ton of possibilities for e.g. the query string that would be annoying to detect (maybe the CDX API could help?)
squishysnuggles commented

I did mean the watch url

for the first one: it seems like it's pretty rare for the fakeurl one to work when the watch page doesn't (I've only seen it happen once)
for the second one: I have seen that happen multiple times but it often seems like the normal watch url works even with those added strings at the end, although I'm not sure how well that would be detected