Archivarix Tube Search

Archivarix Tube Search is an online search engine built to recover deleted, removed, and unavailable YouTube videos. Instead of relying on YouTube itself, it taps into the Wayback Machine, Common Crawl, and other web archives to locate preserved metadata, thumbnails, subtitles, and links to archived video files. The service indexes more than 4 billion YouTube video records dating back to 2005, making it a powerful resource for finding content that has vanished from the platform. Users can look up a video by pasting its original URL or 11-character video ID, search an entire channel via URL or @handle, or run full-text searches across titles, descriptions, and subtitle transcripts. Advanced search operators such as exact-phrase quotes, minus signs for exclusions, and OR for alternatives help narrow results. For recovered videos, the tool displays original metadata and lets users download subtitles in SRT format when available. Archivarix Tube Search is designed for researchers, archivists, journalists, and everyday viewers who want to rediscover erased YouTube content. It does not host videos itself; instead, it checks whether a playable copy has been preserved on Archive.org and provides a direct route to watch it when possible. Because recovery depends on third-party archive coverage, not every deleted video can be found, but the service greatly improves the chances of resurrecting lost content.