- can someone with expertise give us an overview of the architecture involved doing this

- let us say you ran yt-dlp inside python aiohttp

- surely your ll run a limit soon as your ip address will be flagged

- what solutions do we have to auto rotate proxies in python

- are there better, faster and more reliable ways to go about downloading a 100 million videos without getting your ip address blocked?

"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."

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.