On the Internet there is a window capable of showing any corner of the world, from the room of a 'gamer' to an intervention by Donald Trump in the Capitol. On YouTube the possibilities are endless, reviews of Mercadona products, cats doing cat things, makeup tutorials, images of imprudence behind the wheel or children who have become millionaires unpacking toys . Taking into account that every minute more than 500 hours of video is uploaded to the platform, watching it all is an endless goal.
To make this task a bit easier, the website offers the possibility to save a video for later viewing, although you can also copy and save the URL directly. Let's consider the case of resorting to some of the saved videos days later. Then, the following message appears in the window where it should be played: "the video is not available". What has happened? Are not videos that are uploaded to the internet eternal? Don't panic, there are some solutions to find that "deleted" video .
Search by title
First, if you remember the title of the video, the first thing to try is to look for it directly on the platform . Sometimes users download it and replicate it on their own channels. If it was known or went viral, with this option you are very likely to succeed. If not, continue reading.
It seems that the saved video did not attract the attention of many more people, something that can be positive because it means that the mainstream streams are not followed. Beyond feeling special despite not being able to watch the video, there are more options . Again, if the title is remembered, the following search must be carried out in search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing).
If the video has been removed from YouTube due to a copyright claim, something possible since around 9% of the videos are removed for this reason, there are other platforms such as VK, Dailymotion or Vimeo that has different policies on copyrighted content . Unfortunately, it seems that the previous options have not worked. Do we accept defeat? Never! Touch remove and search in a database .
Search by URL
Is it a Tardis, a DeLorean or a time machine? Wayback Machine is a bit of all that. This service is actually a database that contains snapshots or copies of a huge number of websites. It also works with content that is no longer available momentarily or that has been deleted from the source server . Another interesting function is to be able to consult the modifications or the timeline of the web page consulted.
Its operation is as easy as copying the URL of the video or website you want to search. As results it offers several options. The most interesting for YouTube videos would be the calendar, in which through some graphics, the copies that the platform has made of the video over time are shown.
By clicking on the days marked on the calendar with a blue circle, the screenshots are displayed with the time, being able to click on each one to access the replica. The service stores the html content of the source code, which allows you to interact with the copies, so the videos are reproduced in full , as you can read the comments and even visit the user's channel.
Since 2015, Wayback works as if it had a flow condenser (flow for the most correct ones), incorporating the option of returning to the past (not the future) of a web page to be able to see its changes in investigating its updates . Although it may seem like a copy of the Internet itself, Wayback Machine is far from it, for now several sites avoid indexing and recording information, although if you are looking for YouTube videos, this should not be any concern.
Alternative search engine
Like the single ring, there is a search engine that combines all of the above, has access to more than 460 million videos in all languages and from all parts of the world. Petey Vid shows results from more than 60 different platforms in addition to YouTube as social networks, other video websites, Internet archives and the Wayback Machine itself. From their website they claim that "it provides diverse and unbiased results " but this is not the most interesting.
The service is designed with user privacy in mind, they declare not to save or collect IP addresses or search histories. This site does not use user tracking cookies, does not use any JavaScript tracking code and all searches performed are encrypted with SSL. Also, in their sponsorship policy they expose the prohibition of categories such as adult content, gambling and firearms among others .
There is a remote possibility that none of the above options have worked, something unlikely since Wayback Machine has very few things to escape , so if we were lucky enough to have watched the video sometime before it was removed, starting from now on he will only live in our memory.
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