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My YouTube Watch Later Mystery Graveyard (jamesbvaughan.com)
4 points by jamesbvaughan 523 days ago
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r721 523 days ago
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...)

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jamesbvaughan 523 days ago
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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