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Find deleted YouTube videos using the Wayback Machine and Common Crawl. Recover video metadata, thumbnails, and subtitles from web archives. Over 1.5 billion videos indexed since 2005.

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Archivarix Tube Search is a search engine for archived YouTube content — including deleted, removed, and region-blocked videos. It indexes 1.5+ billion videos from 2005 onwards by aggregating Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, Common Crawl, and the YouTube Metadata 2019 dump. Free tier: search...
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Tube Archivarix's answer
Tube Archivarix is the only search engine purpose-built for archived YouTube content — including videos that have been deleted, removed, region-blocked, or DMCA'd. It aggregates multiple archive sources (Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, Common Crawl, the YouTube Metadata 2019 dump) to surface 1.5+ billion videos from 2005 onwards. Beyond search, it layers AI features on top: AI-generated summaries, full audio transcription, and an MCP server so AI agents like Claude and Cursor can query archived content as a tool.
Tube Archivarix's answer
Other tools either focus only on transcript extraction from currently-live videos (e.g. Filmot, Tube Archivist, tubeSeek) or require manual Wayback Machine browsing without YouTube-aware indexing. Tube Archivarix combines:
Tube Archivarix's answer
Researchers, journalists, OSINT analysts, and historians investigating events through video evidence that's no longer publicly available. Content creators verifying claims about deleted videos. Lawyers and compliance teams gathering archived material for cases. Developers integrating archived YouTube data into AI agents via MCP. And general audiences searching for nostalgic content that disappeared from YouTube.
Tube Archivarix's answer
Tube Archivarix grew out of Archivarix.com — a long-running web archiving service. While restoring sites for clients we kept hitting the same problem: no good way to search YouTube content that had been deleted, region-blocked, or removed. The Wayback Machine had the data but no useful query interface for it.
We started indexing archived YouTube metadata in 2024, then layered full-text search, AI-generated summaries, and audio transcription. The MCP server came in 2026 once Anthropic published the protocol — it lets AI agents query our index directly as a tool.
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