For past few years I have favorited many videos which were very good. But I have seen plenty of videos get removed, either by their owner, or due to copyright matching.
Some of these videos are very rare and hard to find. So I am thinking of saving every video either to my personal YouTube account and make it private, or finding another video hosting site and copying the videos there.
But I don't know how I can copy videos from YouTube automatically. I don't want to manually download each video and then upload to new site, one by one.
Is there any automatic way of transferring all the videos on a YouTube account to another video hosting site?
Or, if someone can recommend another video hosting site that supports some form of YouTube account import, that will work as well.
Best Answer
Full Disclosure: I am the lead developer on the site I'm mentioning...
If you can get the URL to the .FLV file (just google 'how to get FLV URL youtube'), Upload by Transfer is what we call it. That feature gets released next week on our platform (see blog post for details). You provide the URL to the FLV, and the cloud service pulls it off and transcodes it.
Edit: Just tried this with the KeepVid suggestion in another answer. Just picked a popular YouTube video... http://play.nimbushd.com/view/lfsv
This is normally meant for production shops with automated workflows (HTTP/FTP servers) but FLV is supported and it's no different. And in the interest of neutrality I suppose you could also do this with encoding.com if you had a destination for it (an FTP server or something).
If you're not looking for a cloud service/hosted platform, then of course there are YouTube downloaders and you can just save the .FLV files off to your hard drive.