AI Weekly Malaysia

A blog post arguing you should archive YouTube videos you care about, noting that even your own "liked videos" playlist has entries that quietly disappear (YouTube requires you to toggle a setting just to see unavailable ones). The author's concrete stack is yt-dlp (or a wrapper) plus a bulk drive or NAS for most people, and for a heavier case — hundreds of videos across dozens of playlists, played on a TV via Jellyfin — ytdl-sub, described as the only yt-dlp wrapper that properly preserved playlist structure, configured through YAML files and shipped in a self-hosted docker-compose form with a browser VS Code IDE. The Jellyfin side is a Library set to TV Shows mode named "YouTube" with all metadata scrapers off and file data preferred over filenames, with some videos tagged as "Documentaries" instead.

Why: If your README, course notes, onboarding docs or blog posts embed YouTube links, some of those are already dead — the author's test is to open your liked-videos playlist and count the gaps. yt-dlp plus a NAS folder is the low-effort fix; only reach for ytdl-sub's YAML config if you actually need to keep dozens of playlists organised and served to a TV through Jellyfin. For anyone recording or curating Malaysian meetup talks, tutorials or creator content, this is the same decision: a local copy is the only copy you control.