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My YouTube Watch Later Mystery Graveyard (jamesbvaughan.com)
4 points by jamesbvaughan 10 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Two solutions I use to identify deleted/private videos in YouTube lists:

1) googling the ID part of the video URL to get/guess the title at least

2) https://web.archive.org/ (surprisingly it even has wholly archived videos for some URLs - random example: https://web.archive.org/web/20150111045309/https://www.youtu...)


I hadn't thought to use the internet archive for this! From a quick check on a few of the unavailable videos on my list, it seems to work well.

Thanks!




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