Description
Archivarix Tube Search is an independent research and archival tool designed to help users find deleted, removed, and unavailable YouTube videos. By leveraging the Wayback Machine, Common Crawl, and other web archives, this tool allows users to recover video metadata, thumbnails, subtitles, and links to archived video files. With over 1.5 billion YouTube video records indexed since 2005, Archivarix Tube Search provides a comprehensive resource for accessing historically archived web data.
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Users can search for deleted videos by entering a YouTube channel URL or handle (@channelname) to discover all archived videos from that channel. This feature allows users to view original titles, descriptions, view counts, and thumbnails of deleted videos. Additionally, users can look up specific deleted videos by pasting its URL or 11-character video ID, enabling them to access archived metadata, thumbnail images, and check if subtitles or the video file itself has been preserved in web archives.
The tool also offers a full-text search capability, allowing users to search across video titles, descriptions, and subtitle transcripts. Users can use quotes for exact phrases, a minus sign to exclude words, and the OR operator for alternatives. Furthermore, users can download subtitles and closed captions from deleted YouTube videos in SRT format, which are recovered from YouTube's caption archives and Wayback Machine snapshots.
Archivarix Tube Search is not affiliated with YouTube and operates independently, focusing on digital preservation and academic research. It aggregates and indexes publicly archived data to make it searchable, supporting the public interest by making historically archived web data accessible. The tool is free to use, with additional features available for registered users and subscribers, enhancing the overall user experience.
- CategoryAI Research Assistants
- Pricing ModelFree Tier
- DeploymentWeb
- PlatformsWeb
Archivarix Tube Search's Core Features
Search by Channel URL
Search by Video URL or ID
Full-Text Search
Recover Subtitles
Find Archived Video Files
AI Subtitles Generation
AI Summaries Generation
Stenograms Generation
How to use Archivarix Tube Search?
Search by YouTube channel URL or handle to find archived videos.
Look up a specific deleted video by entering its URL or video ID.
Use full-text search to find videos by titles, descriptions, or subtitles.
Download subtitles in SRT format from archived videos.
Archivarix Tube Search's Use Cases
- Recover Deleted Videos
- Research Purposes
- Digital Preservation
- Content Analysis
- Subtitles Access









