How to Find Deleted YouTube Videos

Archivarix Tube Search helps you find metadata, thumbnails, and subtitles of deleted or removed YouTube videos. We search the Wayback Machine, Common Crawl, and other public archives to recover information about videos that are no longer available on YouTube.

What Can You Find?

Video metadata — titles, descriptions, upload dates, view counts, and categories of deleted videos
Thumbnails — preview images preserved in web archives
Subtitles & captions — a vast collection of archived subtitle files in 240 languages
Video files — some videos were saved by the Wayback Machine and can still be watched
Channel history — browse all known videos from any YouTube channel, including terminated channels
Likes and dislikes: the counts a video had on a recorded date, including videos removed after YouTube hid dislikes

What You Cannot Find

Videos that were never crawled by web archives before deletion
Private videos that were never publicly accessible

How to Search

Search by Channel

Find all known videos from a YouTube channel — including deleted ones. Use a channel URL, @handle, Channel ID, or legacy path like /user/name.

Search by Video URL

Look up a specific video by its YouTube URL or 11-character video ID.

Full-Text Search

Search across video titles and descriptions to find videos by keywords.

Download Subtitles & Transcripts

YouTube subtitle downloader: save captions and transcripts as SRT/VTT in 240 languages, even from deleted videos.

AI Transcript Generator

Transcribe any video to text with AI when it has no captions. Works for both deleted and live videos.

Watch Archived Videos

Check if a deleted video was preserved by the Wayback Machine and watch it on archive.org.

Video Unavailable?

Private, unlisted, removed, channel gone or a country block: how to tell which one it is and what can still be found.

Wayback Machine and YouTube

What the archive keeps from a YouTube page, why the archived player is blank, and what "we have not been able to archive the video" means.

Find a Reupload

When the Wayback Machine has no file, look for a copy on Archive.org, Dailymotion, or RuTube — plus manual links to Yandex, Google, VK, and reverse image search.

AI Video Summaries

Generate AI-powered summaries of YouTube videos — including deleted ones. Available for Plus and API subscribers.

AI Stenograms (L3+)

Private full-text dialogue transcripts with speaker tags — generated via Pro tier only.

Create an Account

MCP for AI Assistants

Connect Claude, Cursor, or VS Code to search archived YouTube videos via Model Context Protocol.

REST API

Programmatic access to search, metadata, subtitles, and summaries via REST API.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Archivarix Tube Search free?

Yes. You can search without registering. Free registered accounts see more results. Plus subscribers get up to 5,000 results per search, CSV export, and bulk subtitle downloads.

How does it work?

We don't store YouTube videos ourselves. Instead, we search publicly available web archives — the Wayback Machine and Common Crawl — which have been crawling and saving web pages (including YouTube) for years. When a video is deleted from YouTube, the archived copy of its page may still contain the title, description, thumbnails, and subtitles.

Can I watch deleted videos?

In some cases, yes. The Wayback Machine occasionally saves video files. When a video file is available, you'll see a "Watch on archive.org" link in the search results. Learn more.

Why are some deleted videos not found?

Web archives don't capture every page on the internet. If a video's YouTube page was never crawled before the video was deleted, we won't have data for it. Coverage is best for popular channels and videos.

Free tools

Besides search there is a set of small tools: Frame by Frame, Name Checker, Comment Analyzer and a few more. They are listed on the tools page.