Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?

#1

Post by berkeleyarchive » Tue, Mar 14, 2017, 12:43 PM UTC

Tomorrow UC Berkeley is removing all of their lecture videos from Youtube. Thousands of hours of content will be lost to the public. (This has already been discussed at length on HN.)

I'm in the process of archiving some of the most important Computer Science courses, mainly for my own benefit, but I intend to make them publically available. (This is a throwaway account b/c I don't want to run afoul of any legal issues.)

What I have so far:

- CS61 Series (61A, 61B, and 61C)

- CS162 Operating Systems (Kubiatowicz)

- CS164 Programming Languages & Compilers (Hillfinger)

- CS186 Intro to Database Systems (Hellerstein)

Re: Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?

#2

Post by Kinnard » Tue, Mar 14, 2017, 4:43 PM UTC

Could you write a script that captures all of them?

Re: Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?

#3

Post by toomuchtodo » Tue, Mar 14, 2017, 4:44 PM UTC

All of it has already been archived (EDIT: thanks to the hard work and quick response of ArchiveTeam and /r/DataHoarder).

[edit: link to Archive Team project-specific page removed to reduce excessive load; replaced with Archive.is link below]

https://archive.is/D1Ail

Re: Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?

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Post by nsrose7224 » Tue, Mar 14, 2017, 4:44 PM UTC

I'm not sure which of the following are actually available on Youtube, but here are the courses I enjoyed the most and I think are the most valuable as a CS major:

- CS161 Security (Wagner preferably)

- CS189 Machine Learning (Shewchuk)

- CS170 Efficient Algorithms and Intractable Problems

Not a comprehensive list, just my favorites.

Re: Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?

#5

Post by vpribish » Tue, Mar 14, 2017, 4:46 PM UTC

Anyone want to chime in with a way to simply grab them all?

Re: Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?

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Post by neurobot » Tue, Mar 14, 2017, 4:47 PM UTC

As far as I know this course has been archive in archive.org, you can find it there with berkeley as a keyword.

Re: Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?

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Post by vpribish » Tue, Mar 14, 2017, 4:47 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #3

All of it has already been archived (EDIT: thanks to the hard work and quick response of ArchiveTeam and /r/DataHoarder). [edit: link to Archive Team project-specific page removed to reduce excessive load; replaced with Archive.is link below] https://archive.is/D1Ail

Thank you, toomuchtodo. This did seem like the sort of thing that just had to have already been done.

Re: Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?

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Post by garysieling » Tue, Mar 14, 2017, 4:50 PM UTC

vpribish wrote: post #5

Anyone want to chime in with a way to simply grab them all?

youtube-dl

Re: Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?

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Post by mciancia » Tue, Mar 14, 2017, 4:50 PM UTC

vpribish wrote: post #5

Anyone want to chime in with a way to simply grab them all?

youtube-dl can download all videos from given channel

Re: Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?

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Post by obombration » Tue, Mar 14, 2017, 4:50 PM UTC

vpribish wrote: post #5

Anyone want to chime in with a way to simply grab them all?

If there's a YouTube playlist for the course, you can easily grab them all with youtube-dl.

[0]: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/