video-archive
Tube Archivarix
Archivarix's own deleted-YouTube-video finder and a sibling service of this site. Given a video ID it hunts for live reuploads of the deleted video across mirror hosts, shows the video's archived metadata, and supports title search over its YouTube metadata index. Being first-party, it is fully integrated here with no key or setup needed. The first stop when a YouTube link is dead and you want either the video's details or a surviving copy.
No programmatic check, opens the archive’s own search.
Why it’s useful & how it works
Tube Archivarix is a dedicated search engine for lost and deleted YouTube content and a sibling service of this site. Its index, drawn from the Wayback Machine, Common Crawl, and collected YouTube metadata datasets, spans over 1.5 billion video records going back to 2005. You can look up any video by its 11-character ID or URL to retrieve archived metadata, search across titles and descriptions by keyword, or browse all known videos for an entire channel including ones that have since been deleted. When subtitles were archived, the tool can also generate an AI summary of a lost video's content.
What’s inside
Over 1.5 billion YouTube video records indexed, including videos since deleted or made private, with subtitle and description data where the archives captured it.
API access
first-party (same operator as this service)
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 200 305 ms
- Through a datacenter proxy
- Responded HTTP 200 967 ms
Reachability measured 2026-08-22.
Access
Freely reachable, no key, login, or captcha.