52% of YouTube videos live in 2010 have been deleted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32098194 - 2022-07 (56 comments)

I've learned that the hard way. Now I download articles and videos that I find useful.

What mechanism(s) do you use to download articles and videos?

I've become a convert to Zotero[1], even though I'm not an academic. It will automatically snapshot websites (although paywalls and such can trip it up) and for many academic sites will find a PDF version and attach it. For anything it can't automatically archive, it's easy to attach or provide a link to your personal archive version. When I need to manually archive something, wget as:

    wget --mirror --convert-links --adjust-extension --page-requisites --no-parent https://site-to-download.com
For videos, youtube-dl or its successor, yt-dlp[2] work well.

1 https://www.zotero.org/

2 https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp