video-archive
Filmot
A searchable index of YouTube metadata and subtitles spanning hundreds of millions of videos, including ones since deleted or made private. You can search video metadata and even words spoken in subtitles through the free web interface; the informal API needs a key issued by the operator. Its unique value is surfacing details of deleted YouTube videos, which often survive nowhere else. Degraded at present: video pages sit behind a Cloudflare gate against automated connections, so plan on browsing it manually.
No programmatic check — opens the archive’s own search.
Why it’s useful & how it works
Unique value: surfaces metadata of DELETED YouTube videos. As of 2026-05-29 the /video/<id> deep page is CF-gated from datacenter IPs — residential proxy or human session required. Programmatic API still needs an operator-issued key. Already referenced in tube-search; link-first.
What’s inside
Hundreds of millions of YT videos' metadata.
API access
informal API needs an operator-issued key; web UI free
An API key is required — usually free; see the endpoints above for where to get one.
Access
May require solving a captcha before it responds.