Restores titles for removed or private videos in YouTube playlists
Restores Title/Channel information in a YouTube playlist for removed/private videos using the filmot.com YouTube metadata search engine
Open the playlist view with missing videos and a button will appear to restore video titles.
Fetches thumbnails from the Internet Archive if available.
Added support for full format playlists https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1qYmzYerlrMNslZ8C7Q3f9qgPha9Diy
Click on the ... button in the playlist menu and select "Show unavailable videos"
Added support for single page deleted videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r0J23SNbWM
Github Repo https://github.com/Jopik1/filmot-title-restorer
Update: 21 September 2025
Merged dnicolson PR - prevent the script from running in youtube.com iframes (i.e. embeded videos)
Fixed restore button placement for YT layout changes in regular playlists
Removed the unnecessary unsafeWindow grant
Update: 24 August 2025
Merged Vankata453 enhancement - Adds buttons to view video metadata on Filmot (in playlist view) and check/view earliest Wayback archive (in playlist and single video view)
Update: 2 August 2025
Merged Vankata453 fix - Do not show Filmot video metadata when requiring login for age-gated videos
Update: 6 June 2025
Merged Samg381 fixes for restore button placement on regular playlists and watch later playlists
Update: 18 February 2025
Merged Samg381 fix for "restore button not appearing on Firefox"
Update: 27 October 2024
Fixed to work with YT layout changes.
Fixed placement of information for single video pages where sign in was
requested for private videos or where the channel was still alive.
Update to 0.40
Update: 27 August 2024
Fixed to work with Chrome v3 manifest update and YT layout changes
Replaced jquery with cash.min.js to avoid Chrome TrustedHTML errors
Fixed element placement for YT layout changes
Replaced injection of raw HTML with v3 supported operations
Update: 29 September 2023
Cleanup.
Fixed bug with continuation not working after YT format change.
Added support for displaying video metadata on single deleted video page (i.e. /watch endpoint).
Update: 09 February 2023
Fixed to work on latest YouTube layout. If the script stops working in the future please ping me on reddit (/u/jopik1)
Update to 0.37
Update: 29 October 2022
Fixed to work with new YouTube layout. Should work with both new layout and the old layout.
Update: 08 April 2022
Due to a YouTube format change version 0.34 did not work properly and erroneously detected working videos as deleted.
Please update to the current version - version 0.35.
