>The worst part is that in many cases I can't even recover the video title, so I have no idea what has been lost. I use two methods to recover deleted video ti

>The worst part is that in many cases I can't even recover the video title, so I have no idea what has been lost. I use two methods to recover deleted video titles: 1) google videoId part of the URL 2) look up cleaned up (with removed playlist-related parameters, just "youtube.com/watch?v=[videoId]" form) video URL in web.archive.org - sometimes it even has an archived video itself!