video-archive
Ghostarchive (video)
An on-demand, user-fed archiver notable for preserving YouTube and Twitter video as well as ordinary pages. There is no search API; you open archive pages directly by ID or browse its YouTube section. Worth checking in any deleted-video hunt alongside Filmot and the Wayback Machine, since it sometimes holds an actual playable copy rather than just metadata.
No programmatic check, opens the archive’s own search.
Why it’s useful & how it works
Ghostarchive is a user-submitted, on-demand archiver that can capture the actual video file from a YouTube or Twitter post, not just the page metadata. When someone submits a URL before a video is removed, Ghostarchive saves a playable copy at up to 360p quality alongside the page snapshot. There is no search interface; to check whether a specific video has been saved, you look it up by its video ID under the site's YouTube section or browse archived entries directly. It is a useful complement to Filmot and Wayback Machine in a deleted-video hunt because it may hold a watchable copy where others only hold metadata.
What’s inside
User-submitted and undisclosed in total size. Each archived video is stored up to 100 MB and duplicated twice for redundancy; the catalog grows entirely through user submissions with no automated crawling.
What we measured
Our own probes, not the archive’s own claims. Re-run periodically; every reading below is dated.
Reachability
- Direct request
- Responded HTTP 200 259 ms
- Through a datacenter proxy
- Responded HTTP 200 649 ms
Reachability measured 2026-08-22.
Access
Freely reachable, no key, login, or captcha.