video-host
Rumble
A US video host with hundreds of millions of items. It has no stable public API and blocks datacenter traffic, so search it directly on the website from an ordinary connection. Worth including when sweeping video hosts for reuploads of content that has disappeared elsewhere.
No programmatic check, opens the archive’s own search.
Why it’s useful & how it works
Rumble is a US-based video host that attracts content creators and reuploads from communities whose material has been removed from YouTube and other mainstream platforms. There is no stable public API, and automated access from datacenter connections is blocked, so search has to be done by a human on the site. Echo links you directly to a Rumble search page where you can run the query yourself in a regular browser.
What’s inside
Hundreds of millions of videos, with around 47 million monthly active users as of late 2025. Rumble does not publish a precise total video count.
API access
no stable public API; web search blocked from DC IPs
What we measured
Our own probes, not the archive’s own claims. Re-run periodically; every reading below is dated.
Reachability
- Direct request
- Cloudflare challenge HTTP 403 110 ms (just a moment)
- Through a datacenter proxy
- Cloudflare challenge HTTP 403 643 ms (just a moment)
- Search, direct
- Cloudflare challenge HTTP 403 84 ms (just a moment)
- Search, through a proxy
- Cloudflare challenge HTTP 403 606 ms (just a moment)
Reachability measured 2026-08-22.
Access
May be geo- or IP-blocked from some networks.