1 yr. ago • 89%

Is it possible to recover deleted old YouTube videos?

I'm asking because I have been looking for some videos about the game Metroid Prime Hunters, these are some online gameplay videos almost since the beginning of YouTube...

I only remember them in my mind, I don't even recall specific channel names.

Is there any like archive of YT videos? Or is this lost media now?

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Yeah they're probably gone. I tried looking for some video I remembered a while back but you need the url to have any chance of success.

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- Yupp, exact URL is pretty much a bare minimum requirement.
  
  Archive.org sometimes will have YT videos saved too, just an inspect element to grab the video MP4 from their custom player
  
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- And the video you were looking for was still in YT or what is the benefit of knowing the exact URL?
  
  I'm asking because I used to save the videos in my browser bookmarks but I did some cleaning several years ago.
  
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  With the url you can check if it's up on yt, obviously, but also check if it's saved in the web archive (extremely unlikely), or just smash it into a number of search engines in an assortment of queries to see if perhaps it was uploaded somewhere else, where the uploader noted the youtube url/id.
  
  But even so there is miniscule chance of recovery. YouTube history is as good as lost when the original creator decides to delete it, and you personally have not archived it for your own benefit.
  
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I wish. When I deleted my YouTube account, I lost a few videos that i had sworn were locally backed up, but i was wrong. I tried finding them for months online, but came up with nothing.

I'd love to know if it's still possible, though.

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- Man, your videos are hostage in the Google servers probably.
  
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