Youtube

Google’s official data export service, producing massive archives covering Gmail, Google Photos, Drive, YouTube history, Calendar, Contacts, Location History, and dozens more services. A single Takeout dump is the largest personal data ingestion event most people will ever perform — and a critical starting point for anyone building a personal digital archive.

The complete personal digital archive: ingesting a Google Takeout dump, organizing photos with AI-assisted browsing, archiving personal Telegram channels, preserving YouTube watch history and subscriptions, and tying it all together in a git-annex vault with browsable frontends.

Flagship tool for archiving YouTube channels and playlists into git-annex repositories with full metadata preservation. Built on yt-dlp with native DataLad integration for incremental, content-addressed video archival.

The Swiss army knife of video downloading. Foundation for many archival workflows, usable standalone with git-annex import or as the engine behind annextube’s DataLad-native integration.