I am astonished that the success rate is so high. How Youtube didn't block them, I don't know. But I think that this URL list won't age well because youtube will very quickly block any researcher trying to download these videos themselves.
Laion Big Video Dataset (projects.laion.ai)
30 pointsby ks20483 hours ago3 comments
topwalktown an hour ago
"Overall, we attempted to download 130M videos and achieved a link success rate of approximately 60%, resulting in 80M successfully retrieved videos with a total duration of 10M hours."
ks2048 an hour ago
I believe they have the actual videos to download, "exclusively for academic and non-commercial research." and you have to request access, https://projects.laion.ai/bvd/bvd-raw-access.html
They say they used yt-dlp and "employ a residential proxy network". But, yeah, youtube seems to now more aggressively block yt-dlp.
kevmo314 4 minutes ago
That’s a pretty penny on the bandwidth bill alone!