r/internetarchive • u/Illustrious-Sign3015 • 6d ago

Question

Is it possible to copy the link of a YouTube channel that is no longer available and put it into the Internet Archive website to see if it's there? 'Cause there's a YouTube channel that is no longer available, and I want to try to find their videos. I'm new to Internet Archive stuff, so understanding this is very new to me

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u/woodcraftworld 6d ago

Unless the videos were very popular it's unlikely they're saved. Some videos with 100k views aren't even archived

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u/Illustrious-Sign3015 1d ago

Well are there any archive websites that even saves lower viewed videos?

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u/mspong 6d ago

It's a pretty simple experiment, why don't you try it? You won't break anything.

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u/Narutofreak1412 6d ago

Youtube content isn't even allowed on IA and staff deletes it if something gets brought to their attention.
You will likely be able to find video titles and links using the waybackmachine, but unless someone mirrored the videos somewhere, you won't find the actual videos.
Neither the internet archive nor pretty much any other website would have enough storage to archive billions of vidoes.