YouTube Metadata Extractor

Retrieve public YouTube metadata including title, description, tags, hashtags, channel, publish date, duration, thumbnails and statistics in one lookup.

Official public YouTube data

Official public YouTube data.

Only the public video/channel identifier or query needed for this lookup is sent through the protected API gateway. The video file is not downloaded.

What you can do

Paste one public YouTube URL and retrieve title, description, tags, hashtags, channel details, publish date, duration, thumbnails and public statistics in one place.

Best for

Title, description and hashtags.
Uploader-provided tags.
Channel, date and duration.
Research public creator data without downloading the underlying video.

Privacy & processing

This tool requests only the public YouTube identifier or query needed by the official YouTube Data API. The underlying YouTube video is not downloaded.

Processing engine: YouTube API Gateway

How to use YouTube Metadata Extractor

Paste a public YouTube video URL or video ID.
Load the video once through the protected YouTube Data API gateway.
Review title, description, uploader tags, hashtags, channel details, publish date, duration, thumbnails and available public statistics together.
Copy individual fields, copy a complete metadata summary or download the JSON data.

Inputs, outputs and useful limits

Input

A public YouTube video URL or 11-character video ID.

Output

Combined public metadata returned by the official YouTube Data API in one result.

Important limits

Only metadata exposed by the official API can be shown.
Uploader tags, likes, comments, topics or some status fields may be unavailable for a particular video.
Private, deleted or otherwise unavailable videos cannot be extracted.

Common questions: YouTube Metadata Extractor

Does this replace the separate tag, title and description extractors?

No. Those focused pages remain available. This page is the convenience option when you want the major public metadata in one lookup.

Does AG Creator Tools download the YouTube video?

No. Only the video identifier is sent to the protected API gateway; the video file itself is not downloaded.

Are the tags or hashtags generated by AI?

No. Uploader tags and description hashtags are shown only when they are returned or present in the official public metadata.