Archivarix Tube Search

Archivarix Tube Search is an independent research and archival tool that provides a search interface for publicly archived YouTube video metadata. Our mission is to support digital preservation, academic research, and the public interest by making historically archived web data accessible and searchable.

The internet is constantly changing. Web pages, including YouTube video pages, are routinely captured and preserved by public web archiving initiatives such as the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) and Common Crawl. When a YouTube video becomes unavailable for any reason, the metadata that was previously captured by these archives — including titles, descriptions, upload dates, and text-based subtitles — may still be accessible through their public APIs and datasets. Archivarix Tube Search aggregates and indexes this publicly archived data to make it searchable.

What You Can Do: Search by YouTube channel URL, @handle, or Channel ID to browse indexed video metadata; Discover archived metadata for videos that are no longer available on YouTube; Access text-based subtitles preserved in public web archives; Check whether video files have been preserved by the Wayback Machine; Full-text search across indexed video titles, descriptions, and subtitle text; Generate AI subtitles via speech recognition for videos that have no archived captions — including deleted videos with preserved audio; Generate AI summaries (TL;DR, key points with timestamps, detailed overview, topic tags) from any transcript — works for deleted videos too; Generate stenograms — full structured dialogue transcripts with speaker labels, suitable for interviews, podcasts, lectures and panels — also available for deleted videos; AI-Powered Tools: Beyond raw archive search, Tube Search can extract additional value from what is preserved: AI Subtitles, AI Summaries, Stenograms, Free YouTube Tools: Besides archive search, we also offer free tools for everyday YouTube tasks: a frame-by-frame viewer, a channel name checker, a music copyright checker, a monetization checker, an AI comment generator and a comment analyzer.

data sources: All data presented by this Service is derived from publicly available sources: the Wayback Machine CDX API (Internet Archive), the Common Crawl open dataset, and the YouTube Metadata 2019 research dataset. We do not scrape, crawl, or otherwise access YouTube directly for the purpose of data collection. Thumbnails and subtitle text are retrieved from archived snapshots stored by third-party archives. All videos link directly to their original YouTube page.

Use cases

• Discover archived metadata for videos that are no longer available on YouTube
• Access text-based subtitles preserved in public web archives