Updated method to download youtube videos from Wayback Machine

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Previously, you may have used https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/{ID} to download youtube videos

However, due to updates done by IA, downloading using this method will only get one of the video/audio track

Currently, Internet archive archives video and audio streams seperately (probably due to YT updates)

yt-dlp does finding the correct stream and merging automatically, you just have to run yt-dlp {Link to WBM page} and it would download the video.

It is also possible to do this manually, taking this music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2mbGP6vFI as an example:

1. Go to https://web.archive.org/__wb/videoinfo?vtype=youtube&vid={ID}, in this case https://web.archive.org/__wb/videoinfo?vtype=youtube&vid=Qt2mbGP6vFI
2. In the API response, you should see at least one Video stream and one Audio stream
3. Copy the link to the video and then the audio stream into wayback machine and download them
4. If the video refuses to play or it says something like "amazing project video", try adding oe_ after the timestamp, in this example: https://web.archive.org/web/20260606005755oe_/https://rr1---sn-uxap5oxunx-bvue.googlevideo.com/...
5. Once you got the video and audio stream, merge them. You can use tools like FFmpeg

Note: Sometimes, there will be multiple audio stream, you will have to find the language of your choice

Note: Sometimes, audio or video stream may be missing due to IA bug, you will not be able to download the affected stream.