Find a Specific Deleted YouTube Video

If you have a link to a YouTube video that's no longer available, or just its 11-character video ID, you can look it up directly.

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Copy the video URL or ID
You can use any of these formats:
  • Full URL — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
  • Short URL — https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
  • Video ID — dQw4w9WgXcQ (11 characters)
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Paste into the search bar
Go to tube.archivarix.net and paste the URL or ID into the search bar, then click "Search".
Pasting a video URL Pasting a video URL
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View the results
Tube Search will resolve the video to its channel and show all known videos from that channel, with your searched video pinned at the top. If the video is deleted, you'll see whatever metadata was recovered from archives.
Video search results Video search results
If the video is from a channel we have data for, you'll see the full channel results. If we can't determine the channel, you'll see just the video information we could recover.

What Happens Behind the Scenes

When you search by video URL or ID, the system determines which channel the video belongs to and runs the same multi-source archive scan as a channel search. If the channel hasn't been scanned before, this may take a few minutes — a progress bar will show the current stage. For channels already in our database, results appear almost instantly.

If you see "Video not found" it means this video was never crawled by web archives before it was removed. This is more common for videos from small channels.

Where to Find Video IDs

Video IDs often appear in:

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