How to Recover Deleted or Lost YouTube Video with URL or Not
Many YouTubers have deleted videos from their YouTube channels which they don’t anyone to see it and regretted for the choice months or years later. It is understandably that no one cares to download an awkward video before deleting it, but more often than not, the video turns out to be a valuable memory or import proof in the future. Is it possible to watch or recover deleted YouTube videos? In this article, we are going to introduce two working methods for the purpose.
Method 1. Restore/Watch Deleted YouTube Videos Online with URL
After you upload a video to your YouTube channel, the video can be crawled or captured online. Some websites provide such a service that allows users to search for archived resources, like web pages, books, videos and software. However, not all YouTube videos are archived but only the ones with a lot of views. Actually, many times, these websites only save relative statistics or snapshots of the resources. Anyway, it is still worth a try.
First of all, you should have the URL of the deleted YouTube video, either it is a link shared on your Facebook/Twitter or recorded on an Excel worksheet, or at least a unique keyword. If you want to continue, please follow the steps below.
- Step 1. Visit Archive.org on your computer browser.
- Step 2. Enter the URL of the deleted YouTube video in the search box and hit Enter.
- Step 3. In the results, check the records of the lost video and access them by different dates.
- Step 4. Ideally, you should be able to watch deleted YouTube videos online. If you want to recover the videos, there are multiple ways to download YouTube videos.
Archive.org is our recommended website for restoring deleted YouTubes videos online, but you may also try more alternatives for greater chance.
Method 2. Recover Deleted YouTube Videos without Backup
If you failed to restore the uploaded YouTube videos online, now the last resort might be recovering YouTube videos from the local drive where you edited and saved the original video files. You might have deleted the files after uploading them to YouTube, but it is still possible to undelete them from your computer, external hard drive or USB drive. YouTube video recovery is always suggested to be applied as soon as possible since the new data is overwriting the lost ones whenever you use the storage device.
Jihosoft Photo Recovery is the best choice for Windows & Mac users to recover deleted videos & photos from PC, external hard drive, USB drive, and other storage devices. It supports MP4, AVI, MKV, MOV, SWF and many more video formats. You can also use it to recover the thumbnails or covers of the YouTube videos as pictures.
Features of Jihosoft Photo Recovery
- Recover all formats of video, photo and audio files.
- Support internal & external hard drive, SD card, USB flash drive etc.
- Multiple filtering options help you find desired data quickly.
- Full preview before recovery to avoid time wasting in case of data overwriting.
- Straightforward and friendly user interface.
Step 1. Run the Recovery Software and Choose Recover Photo
Run Jihosoft Photo Recovery and you will see three options: Recover Photo, Create Image and Resume Recovery. Please click Recover Photo. You may have a try with Create Image to back up your memory card or USB drive later.
Step 2. Select the Disk Drive and Scan Now
When you see the detected disk drives, including internal/external hard drive and USB drive. Please identify and select the drive partition where the deleted videos were stored, then click Scan Now to proceed.
Tips: Advance Scan provides more filtering options by file format.
Step 3. Preview and Recover Deleted YouTube Videos
Once the scanning is completed, please click the file types on the left and preview every data on the right. You can view or play all the photos, videos and audio files on the program to identify if you really need them. Click Recover button to restore deleted YouTube videos.
With the recovery software, you can also recover RAW photos and videos from Nikon digital camera and most of other DSLR made by Canon, Fujifilm, Sony, etc.
Tips to Avoid Losing YouTube Videos Permanently
Whether you have restored the lost YouTube videos or not, here are some tips for YouTubers to avoid losing their videos permanently.
- Hide or un-list a video if you don’t want other people to see it, instead of deleting it.
- List the URLs of your YouTubes in an Excel document or share the videos to your social channels so that it would be possible to restore the videos with URL in Method 1.
- Download the YouTube video before deleted permanently if you don’t have any backups already.
Bottom Line
This tutorial covers almost all possible solutions to restore deleted YouTube videos online or locally. We hope you have retrieved your lost videos successfully. If it failed, unfortunately, keep it as a lesson and download the video before deleting it next time. Don’t forget to share this tutorial to more people if you find it useful.
