Archivarix Tube Search

Archivarix Tube Search finds deleted YouTube videos in web archives and retrieves metadata, thumbnails, and subtitles.

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About Archivarix Tube Search

Archivarix Tube Search is an independent search engine for metadata from YouTube videos that have been deleted, removed or made unavailable. It indexes more than 4 billion YouTube records dating back to 2005 from public web archives, including the Wayback Machine and Common Crawl. The service is intended to support digital preservation and academic research, and what it can return depends on the snapshots those archives kept.

Pricing is not clearly stated.

Key features

  • Search by channel URL, @handle or Channel ID
  • Look up a single video by URL or 11-character ID
  • Full-text search across titles, descriptions and subtitle transcripts
  • Download archived subtitles and closed captions in SRT format
  • Check whether Archive.org preserved a video file, and watch available copies
  • Generate AI subtitles from speech recognition when no archived captions exist and audio is reachable
  • Generate AI summaries from a transcript, including for deleted videos
  • Generate speaker-labelled stenograms from a transcript
Best for: Academic and digital-preservation researchers, and others working in the public interest with archived web data.

Archivarix Tube Search at a glance

Type
Online tool
Pricing
Not confirmed. Check the site
Platforms
Web
Details verified
Oct 22, 2026 · Official source
Open source
Not stated
Language
English
Last checked
Oct 5, 2026 · Online when checked
Listed
Oct 5, 2026

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