Hey Product Hunt 👋 I help build Archivarix Tube Search, a search engine for archived YouTube videos. The idea started a few years ago when I was looking for a video I remembered from 2010 that had been deleted, and realized there was no good way to find it. The Wayback Machine has snapshots, but you need to know the exact URL or guess it. We wanted something where you could just type a channel name or some keywords and find everything that survived. What's in the index: - About 1.5 billion archived YouTube videos going back to 2005 - Sources combined: Wayback Machine snapshots, Internet Archive captures, our own crawls - For deleted videos: title, description, thumbnail, channel info, plus auto-generated transcripts where we have them - Channel-level browsing works even for terminated channels For the AI assistants crowd: there's an MCP server that lets Claude / Cursor / VS Code search the index directly. The npm package (tube-search-mcp) is MIT-licensed and lives at github.com/Archivarix-com. Honest about limitations: recall is much better for popular channels and recent deletions than for obscure 2008 videos. Don't expect 100%. But for the cases where it works, there's often nothing else. Free anonymous search and metadata. Free registration adds subtitle downloads. Paid tiers (Plus, API/MCP) for power users. Happy to answer questions or take feedback. If you've ever tried to find a deleted video and given up, I'd love to know how it works for you.

Archivarix Tube Search - Search 1.5B archived YouTube videos, even deleted

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