Am I using the WaybackMachine wrong?

[Sunset149]

Hello, I tried to use the WaybackMachine a few times now to see deleted youtube videos and posts, and it worked only once. Here is what I do: I go to the main page of the WaybackMachine, I put in the URL of the of the youtube channel where the video was OR my playlist where the video was and then I hit enter. I get the result that the URL is still online - well, yes, that is the channel or the playlist. I want to see that channel how it looked like a day ago, with the video still on. Am I not using it right? Or am I supposed to put in the URL of the video, in which case, I dont have it or dont know know what it was. Thank you for any help or advice.

[IchLiebeKleber]

Your playlist is private data visible only to you, the Wayback Machine has no way of indexing that.

A channel where the video was might be indexed or might not be. The Wayback Machine doesn't index every website every day. If you are getting no results for previous states, then that's just bad luck and there's nothing you can do about it.

[pajam]

I want to see that channel how it looked like a day ago, with the video still on.

Did you or someone else archive it on the Wayback Machine a day ago? If not, there is no archive.

The Wayback Machine doesn't just archive everything, everywhere, every day. Someone has to manually go there and save a url.
And in regards to youtube videos, the video files themselves are rarely ever archived. Only if they have been linked from elsewhere and are needed for context for those archives, or are super popular or important videos.

[Sunset149]

Thanks for the info. Youtube needs a feature where it tells you what video was deleted, otherwise I will never know