Archivarix Tube Search

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MCP server for Archivarix Tube Search — search archived YouTube videos including deleted content. Channel discovery, full-text search, video metadata, transcripts, and AI-generated summaries via the Wayback Machine. 1.5B+ videos indexed since 2005.

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Overview

Archivarix Tube Search is a search engine for archived YouTube videos — including deleted, removed, and region-blocked content. The MCP server wraps the public API so AI agents (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor) can search 1.5+ billion videos indexed since 2005.

What it can find

Video metadata (title, description, channel, upload date, duration, view counts, tags)
Original captions / subtitles where archived
AI-generated summaries (Gemma 4 27B)
Full audio transcripts (Qwen3-ASR for surviving archived audio)
Channel discovery across legacy username / handle / @-tag URL forms
Reconstructed playable URLs to archived video files when available

Sources aggregated

Internet Archive Wayback Machine (CDX + HEAD-spread discovery) · Common Crawl · YouTube Metadata 2019 dump · live yt-dlp probes for surviving content.

Tools (9)

Tool	Purpose
`search_channel`	Find archived videos from a YouTube channel
`search_videos`	Full-text search across video titles and descriptions
`get_video`	Metadata for a specific video by ID
`get_subtitles`	Transcript as readable plain text
`get_summary`	AI-generated video summary
`generate_summary`	Generate a new AI summary on demand
`browse_summaries`	Browse summaries by tag, channel, or language
`get_video_status_history`	Status change history of a video
`get_usage`	Current API usage and rate-limit status

Plus 5 resources (tube://video/{id}, tube://channel/{id}, tube://subtitles/{id}, tube://summary/{id}, tube://tags) and 3 prompts (research_video, channel_overview, find_deleted).

Install

npx tube-search-mcp — works on macOS / Linux / Windows. Requires Node.js 18+ and a free API key from tube.archivarix.net (Profile → API Keys).

Pricing

Free tier covers anonymous + registered users. Paid tiers (Plus, MCP+API) unlock higher rate limits, AI summaries on-demand, and audio transcription. The search UI itself is free for everyone, in 6 languages (EN/RU/ES/DE/FR/PT).

Server Config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tube-search": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "tube-search-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TUBE_API_KEY": "tsk_YOUR_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

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