YouTube Video Info Tool

YTTools parses the public page of any YouTube video and returns the complete metadata set:

• Full title and description with formatting preserved
• Every tag attached to the video
• View count, like count, comment count
• Duration in seconds and human-readable format
• Publish date and last-updated timestamp
• Channel name, ID, subscriber count, and channel URL
• Category (Gaming, Music, Education, etc.)
• All thumbnail sizes (default, medium, high, standard, maxres)
• Language, captions availability, audio language
• Monetisation indicator where available

Everything is returned in a clean JSON-like layout you can copy, export, or feed into another tool.

Creators use it to study competitors and reverse-engineer why a video ranks. Researchers use it to scrape metadata for studies. Journalists use it to verify publish dates and view counts. Marketers use it to pull thumbnails and descriptions for reports. Students use it to cite videos in bibliographies. Developers use it as a poor man's YouTube API when the official API quota runs out.

Every one of those use cases was why we built the tool. It is permanently free.

Unlike many competitor tools, YTTools does not require a YouTube Data API key. We fetch the public YouTube video page and extract the metadata embedded in the HTML. That means no daily quota, no API key management, and no signup.

The trade-off: we can't access data that YouTube hides from the public page (like impression counts or exact watch-time). For those, you still need the YouTube Analytics API. For everything else, the video info tool is faster and simpler.

The official YouTube Data API is the best source of truth for YouTube metadata — but it comes with caveats:

• Default quota is 10,000 units/day; one videos.list call costs 1 unit.
• You need a Google Cloud project and an API key.
• Some fields (like exact publish time) require OAuth from the channel owner.
• Rate limiting applies per IP and per key.

The YTTools video info tool fills the gap for quick lookups, occasional research, and anyone who does not want to manage an API key. For production workloads at scale, use the official API.

The video info tool is part of a larger free suite. Common workflows:

• Use the YouTube thumbnail downloader to grab all thumbnail variants at once.
• Use the YouTube tag extractor to copy all tags to your clipboard.
• Use the YouTube transcript downloader to pull the full transcript as TXT, SRT, or VTT.
• Use the description extractor to copy the raw description including hashtags and timestamps.

YouTube video metadata is public. YTTools only reads information that any browser can see. We respect robots.txt, we rate-limit aggressively on our end to avoid stressing YouTube, and we do not cache personal data.

That said, if you use the tool for research or publication, be careful about republishing full descriptions or large portions of copyrighted content. The metadata is free for you to use; the video itself is still the creator's property.