In this post, we are going to learn how to find the title of deleted youtube video in detail.
Have you unknowingly deleted a YouTube video or was it deleted by YouTube because of strikes or violations of terms?
Wanna re-upload the same video by trimming the portion which is against the terms?
Wanna know the title and meta description of the deleted video to get the same SEO benefits and rankings?
Perhaps just curious to know the video title and meta description?
Let’s explore how to find the title of deleted YouTube video.
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How to identify the deleted YouTube video?
If one of your videos or any video on YouTube is deleted from YouTube, it’ll display a kind of broken image saying “Deleted video” in the title.
Sometimes you could see the deleted video image on your favorite music playlist as well.
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I know how annoying it is. If you find the title of the song/video you could easily replace the deleted video with similar one.
There are many possible reasons for video deletion.
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Here are the few common reasons why the video was deleted from YouTube
Video deleted by the user
Video violated terms and services
Video has a copyright claim
Video contains spam
YouTube channel associated with that video was deleted/terminated
Video is too long
The video was restricted to a particular country
The video contains hate speech or bullying
Video contains harassing or threatening content
Unknown reason(Only god knows!)
How to find the title of deleted YouTube video?
Just follow the below steps to find the title of video removed from YouTube
Step 1
Open the deleted video on a new tab and note down the YouTube video URL on notepad.
Step 2
For instance, let’s take this deleted YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1MbmlCpyB4&feature=youtu.be
Step 3
Extract YouTube video ID from the video URL.YouTube videoId comes after “v=” and ends before “&”. In this case, video id is x1MbmlCpyB4
If the video is in the playlist then url will be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGwWNGJdvx8&list=
PLMC9KNkIncKtPzgY-5rmhvj7fax8fdxoj
Here’s the videoId JGwWNGJdvx8 and just ignore other stuff.
Step 4
Paste the videoId on Google search text box and hit enter.
You can find the video title on the very first search result from the YouTube cached page.
That’s it you finally found the title of the deleted YouTube video.
Let’s see how to find the thumbnail of deleted video.
It’s really simple and all you need to do is go to Google images and put the videoID in the search box. Most likely, you can find the thumbnail image of the deleted video.
Frequently Asked Questions
Try using other search engine bing, duckduckgo, or Yahoo.
No. You cannot find the title of the private video with this approach.
Yes. It should.
I’ve no other way. But to avoid the same thing happening in the future, you can take a back up of your Playlist info using this tool.
No.YouTube doesn’t have this archive mechanism.
The chance is very high for music videos and less for your own content. If somebody uploaded your content on their channel you can recover from that.
When you hit delete or it was deleted by YouTube, it’ll be permanently removed from the YouTube database. You can’t recover it unless you have a local back up.
Please do let me know if you have any questions.
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