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I will explain now the most basic ways you can search stuff on Nico Nico Douga without having to worry about the language barrier: https://www.nicovideo.jp/video_top

Video 1: Start by using search engines like DuckDuckGo or Google to find the Japanese version of the term you're looking for. Once you have it, copy and paste it into Nico Nico Douga's search bar, specifically in the キーワード (Keyword) section. This will show you videos related to that keyword, whether it's in the title, description, or comments. Remember, English terms are often written in Katakana, so it helps to have a basic understanding of Japanese Hiragana and Katakana. If searching with the Katakana version of an English word brings no results, try the English word itself.

Video 2: This approach displays videos that precisely match the tag you've entered. It's an effective way to find particular kinds of videos while avoiding unrelated content. To use this method, it's important to recall the exact tag name without any typographical errors, or you can navigate to a saved video where the desired tag is present and simply click on it.
You can also search by mylists, images, and livestreams in the exact same way.

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Have you ever wondered when you open a Nico Nico Douga link why sometimes there are just no comments showing for you despite how it says there are like 30,000 comments? We'll let me quickly explain.
There are 3 regions for Nico Nico Douga and if I remember correctly there used to be even more, when you open Nico Nico Douga from Europe or the U.S your location will be automatically set to English (US) and will only show you comments made by English speaking users which in most case don't exist on there.
So what you can do is scroll down to the bottom of the page where you can change the region back to Japanese and the comments will appear once again.

Here's a very basic python script to download videos from Nico Nico Douga utilizing: https://github.com/AlexAplin/nndownload

import nndownload
import os

def download_video(url, output_template, username, password):
    try:
        output_path = output_template.format(id="{id}", ext="{ext}", title="{title}", uploader="{uploader}")
        #If you don't want to be asked for a OTP code every time you run this script remove the ""-u", username, "-p", password," segment. you will download as a non premium user low quality.
        #for more download options see: https://github.com/AlexAplin/nndownload?tab=readme-ov-file#cli
        nndownload.execute("-u", username, "-p", password, "-f", "-a", "-o", output_path, url)
        print(f"Download completed for: {url}")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Failed to download {url}: {str(e)}")

def main(urls, output_template, username, password):
    for url in urls:
        formatted_output_template = os.path.join(output_template, "{uploader} - {title} - {id}.{ext}")
        
        download_video(url, formatted_output_template, username, password)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    #You can put multiple urls here including mylist urls just separate them by a comma like "","".
    urls = [""]
    base_output_path = "C:\\NND"
    username = ""
    password = ""

    main(urls, base_output_path, username, password)

Well this fucking sucks...
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/0187fbe7f6a856508d7d00916fddef44d7846144
Nico Nico Service, which operates the video community site Nico Nico Douga and other services, has suspended its services since around 6:00 a.m. on June 8, 2024, announcing on its official website updated around 7:00 p.m. that it is “under a large-scale cyber attack. The site explains that “we do not expect to be able to restore the service at least during this weekend” as we cannot begin restoration until we are confident that we have completely eliminated the effects of the cyber attack and that it is safe to do so.

We do not expect restoration to begin until we are confident that the cyber attacks have been completely eliminated and that it is safe to do so. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused.” It also stated that the restoration was not expected until the 9th, and that ”we will inform you again on Monday (June 10, 2024) regarding the latest situation.

Services such as Nico Nico Douga, Nico Nico Live, and Nico Nico account login for external services have been suspended.

As for the “current situation,” the company stated, “We are investigating the route of the attack and the possibility of information leakage in parallel with the restoration work,” and also stated that no credit card information has been confirmed to have been leaked.

Nico Nico said, “We deeply apologize to all users who were looking forward to the video posting and live broadcast programs scheduled for this weekend. We ask for your understanding and cooperation until we can complete our response".

>>2928
i wonder why they are under attack?

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>>2929
I'll be extremely surprised if KADOKAWA goes through with the deal given that they were seriously raising nico nico douga premium prices due to inflation making me think that the company really doesn't have enough money to go around. The small amount they offered might be really everything they can afford.
Anyways I hope in the "downloaded data" they have danmaku comments included since KADOKAWA/Dwango stated they had all of the videos and stuff saved failing to give any comment on whether danmaku comments were included in that list. I'm also assuming that we'll soon have doxx information on every single Nico Nico Douga creator that bought premium although any foreigners would be safe given that the only payment method is paypal.

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>>3053
I can't wait until Nico Nico Douga is back...
There's so much more stuff I have not watched yet...
Too many articles that I haven't read yet...
So much more stuff that still needs to be translated and made into a thread...
Without Nico Nico Douga there's not much point going forward...
The pain is real and the future is so uncertain.

>>3057
there was a 9 year old video i was looking for and waiting for everything to work again so i can spend hours seaching for it is a pain

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the translation was done initially with whisper but had to spend some time cleaning up a lot of garbage it came up with so I don't feel like checking for errors anymore especially with how badly edited this news show is. Also they promised to redact personal information but fucking put kurita's email in full view? [email protected]

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It got leaked but apparently only the first 100 GB more to come later?
http://ro4h37fieb6oyfrwoi5u5wpvaalnegsxzxnwzwzw43anxqmv6hjcsfyd.onion/ Here if you want to browse it yourself.
ロシアンハッカー、身代金を払わなければ7/1にデータ公開すると宣言
Russian hackers declared that they would release data on July 1 if the ransom was not paid.

7/1は特に何もなく日付が7/2になった瞬間データが公開
Nothing happened on July 1, but as soon as the date changed to July 2, the data was released.

ケンモメンが公開されたデータを掘ってやばそうなものを転載
Kenmomen (members of the Kenmo community) dug through the released data and reposted some alarming content.

nakamuraのディレクトリに本来別サーバにあるはずのN高生徒の個人情報が保存されてたと判明
It was discovered that personal information of N High School students, which should have been on a separate server, was stored in Nakamura's directory.

芸能人のギャラ情報が見つかり、芸人よりもVtuberや声優の方がギャラが高くて、野田クリスタルでも30万と判明
Celebrity fee information was found, revealing that VTubers and voice actors were paid more than comedians, with even Noda Crystal earning 300,000 yen.

安倍晋三の口座情報が見つかり、ケンモメンが試して実際に送金できることを確認
Abe Shinzo's bank account information was discovered, and Kenmomen confirmed that they could actually make transfers.

個人の配信者やVtuberの契約書類が見つかり、本名など個人情報が流出
Contracts of individual streamers and VTubers were found, leaking real names and other personal information.

身バレ系Vtuberの天羽しろつぶ(自称:佐藤あま)の個人情報も流出し、実際の本名は全く異なり、ハッキングされる前から好き嫌い.comに個人情報リークされてたことが判明
Personal information of the identity-exposed VTuber Tenma Shirotsubu (self-identified as Sato Ama) was also leaked, revealing a completely different real name. It was found that her personal information had been leaked on sukikiraidotcom before the hacking.

流出した電話番号に実際にかけてみるエッチ民が現る
People started making actual calls to the leaked phone numbers.

NGワードリストが見つかり、なぜか「おもしろい」がNGワードに入ってると話題に
An NG (no-go) word list was found, and it became a topic of conversation that "interesting" was included as an NG word.

大体こんな感じの流れ
That's roughly the flow of events.

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Nico Nico Douga is finally coming back tomorrow after the ransomware attack. I tried to convince myself that maybe this was a blessing in disguise thinking that the staff at Nico Nico Douga were taking this opportunity to completely overhaul the site, considering how awful it has become over the years since the disaster that was Nico Nico Zero in 2012 (with its resource-intensive video player, confusing layout, high system requirements, ignored user feedback, etc.). I had hoped they might return to their roots, refocusing on the otaku community, fixing all of the playback issues between different browsers, and easing up on the restrictions between premium and non-premium users.
But how naive was I? It's always been clear that the current corporate staff at Dwango have forgotten the website's BBS origins of being a platform for otakus to share videos with other otakus, and taken to heart the misguided notion from clueless foreigners that Nico Nico is just "Japanese YouTube." This is god damn awful, you can't discern this from any other video website.

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NicovideoDL is a web-based method used to download niconico video content, without having to futz with GUI and terminal-based programs, and also the headaches of attaching premium login cookies to your downloader.
As of the relaunch of Nico Nico Douga, you can insert the two letters "dl" after "nicovideo" on your current sm id URL. A message, like the first image attached, should appear, and it will refresh every 5 seconds. Once the video is ready to download, a blue hyperlink appears; simply just click and download the contents to your local filesystem, and you're done! The attached video is an example of the output of nicovideodl.
As of posting, the team is working on guaranteeing premium quality output using this method once those services are fully restored on DWANGO's end. Until then, this is a useful method to bypass content loading errors that might occur, and you simply just want to view and/or save the video locally for backup/safekeeping. (especially if another incident like this happens again!)

Holy fucking shit I thought that the past logs feature on nico nico douga to view old comments was gone for good but lurking this thread here: https://itest.5ch.net/egg/test/read.cgi/software/1716314151 someone managed to implement it here: https://github.com/darthlain/nicodl_release The output will be a .xml file which you can put into something like https://air.fem.jp/ (commeon) along side the video and it will display all of the comments. commeon by itself should be able to fetch past logs but I keep getting a bad request for some unknown reason.
Anyways the nicodl_option.json should look something like this:

{
"dl_dir": "", (put in the url where to save video, MAKE SURE IT IS DOUBLE BACKSLAHES \\)
"yt_dlp_path": (put in the url where yt-dlp.exe is located, MAKE SURE IT IS DOUBLE BACKSLAHES \\)
"comment_mail": "",
"comment_pass": "",
"user_session": "", (Press F12 in chrome and go to application and go to cookies and find the value of user_session.)
"is_video": "true",
"is_comment": "true",
"is_kakolog": "true", (make sure this is set to true to download past comments)
"is_kantan": "",
"comment_fileformat": "",
"end_presswait": "true" (press enter on finish)
}

then when this configuration is correct open nicodl.exe and press the "a" key put in a URL and then write "nico" to start downloading.

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As of October 30th, 2024 (Unknown Time, JST), access to niconico content flagged as sensitive and explicit are geo-restricted if you are detected as a user (registered or not) outside of Japan. Attached to this post are two images: first is the restricted results, even with sensitive content displayed turned on in user settings; second image displays what it is like with a Japanese non-residential IP. The final image is a message when attempting to access flagged-as-explicit content as a non-Japanese IP. Side note: it's really interesting seeing the nicopedia content preview hidden when looking up tags as well under a foreign IP.

https://youtu.be/ptmZAsWev_0 [Play] You thought KADOKAWA was bad? I bet one of the first things sony will do with Dwango once they acquire KADOKAWA is to shut down nico nico for good due to it being such a drain on resources.

>>3744
It's official. Sony is now the largest shareholder of KADOKAWA under the white knight strategy.
Fuck you South Korea.

https://www.sony.com/ja/SonyInfo/News/Press/202412/24-1219/
KADOKAWA and Sony Agree to Strategic Capital and Business Alliance
Strengthening collaboration to maximize the global value of their IP assets

KADOKAWA Corporation
Sony Group Corporation

KADOKAWA Corporation (hereafter "KADOKAWA") and Sony Group Corporation (hereafter "Sony") have announced today that they have entered into a strategic capital and business alliance agreement. Under this agreement, Sony will acquire 12,054,100 newly issued shares of KADOKAWA for approximately ¥50 billion through a third-party allotment scheduled for January 7, 2025. As a result of this acquisition, Sony will become the largest shareholder of KADOKAWA, holding approximately 10% of the company's shares, including shares already acquired in February 2021.

KADOKAWA and Sony have collaborated on various initiatives in the past. This capital and business alliance will further strengthen their cooperation in maximizing the global value of their respective IP assets. The collaboration will include exploring joint investments in the content domain, co-discovering new creators, and advancing the media mix strategies of both companies’ IP assets. The companies aim to engage in more extensive and in-depth collaborations.

Future joint efforts will focus on the global live-action film and drama adaptation of KADOKAWA's IP, co-production of anime works, expanded global distribution of KADOKAWA's anime titles via Sony's networks, enhanced publishing of KADOKAWA's games, and the promotion and dissemination of virtual production technologies through talent development.

Comments from Key Executives
Takeshi Natsuno, President, CEO, and Representative Director of KADOKAWA Corporation
"I am delighted to announce this strategic capital and business alliance with Sony. This partnership will not only bolster our IP creation capabilities but also expand the range of media mix opportunities through Sony's support for global deployment. This will enable us to deliver our IP to a wider global audience, significantly enhancing its value while contributing to the medium- to long-term growth of our corporate value. We are committed to making this collaboration with Sony a great success in the global market."

Hiroki Totoki, President, COO, and CFO of Sony Group Corporation
"Through this capital and business alliance, Sony becomes the largest shareholder of KADOKAWA, a company known for its diverse IP, including light novels, comics, games, and anime. By combining KADOKAWA’s rich IP ecosystem with Sony’s strengths in global entertainment, including anime and gaming, we aim to maximize IP value. Together, we will work closely to realize KADOKAWA’s 'Global Media Mix' strategy and Sony's long-term 'Creative Entertainment Vision.'"