Archivarix Tube Search

Archivarix Tube Search

Find deleted YouTube videos and recover metadata, thumbnails, and subtitles.

Freemium - Free to use for search and basic recovery. Optional account/features for advanced searches or additional functionality (per site guides).

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About Archivarix Tube Search

Archivarix Tube Search is a web search engine for locating deleted, removed, or unavailable YouTube videos by scanning web archives such as the Wayback Machine and Common Crawl. It indexes over 1.5 billion YouTube records (since 2005) and lets you search by channel, video URL/ID, or full text (titles, descriptions, transcripts). Recover video metadata, thumbnails, SRT subtitles, and links to archived video files — and watch archived copies when available. Useful for researchers, journalists, creators, and archivists needing to retrieve lost YouTube content.

Key Features

  • Search by channel URL or handle to find all archived videos
  • Lookup by video URL or 11-character ID to recover metadata and thumbnails
  • Full-text search across titles, descriptions, and subtitle transcripts
  • Download recovered subtitles in SRT format
  • Locate and play archived video files when preserved on Archive.org or other archives

Who is this for?

Researchers, journalists, archivists, content creators, legal/compliance professionals, and anyone seeking deleted YouTube content.

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