video-host
RuTube
Russia's main video host, with tens of millions of videos; our research found roughly a 4% overlap with YouTube reuploads. Search works on the website, though its informal search endpoint rate-limits and throws captchas at bursts of automated traffic. Worth checking when a Russian-language or Russia-related video has vanished from YouTube.
Video / audio / music captcha
Search this archive
No programmatic check — opens the archive’s own search.
Why it’s useful & how it works
Carried over from the original hand-rolled registry; captcha-class from datacenter IPs. Link-only here, probe via residential proxy in Epic 2.
What’s inside
Tens of millions of videos.
API access
informal /api/search/video/?query= (rate-limited; captcha on bursts)
Access
May require solving a captcha before it responds.