Free toolYouTube title & description extractor.Copy both, word for word.
Paste a YouTube link: we read the video's title and full description from the YouTube Data API and show them in YouTube Studio's fields, with their length against the 100 and 5,000-character limits, the links, hashtags and chapters. Copy one, copy both, or download them as a text file. Free, no sign-up.
Videos, Shorts and live streams. Free, no sign-up.
Titles and descriptions come from YouTube, through the YouTube Data API. By using this tool you agree to the YouTube Terms of Service.
Title (required)
51/100
Description
756/5,000
- Title
- 51 of 100 characters
- Description
- 756 of 5,000 characters
- Chapters
- 0:00An intro to video chapters0:23How to set up video chapters1:07See video chapters in actionThese follow YouTube's chapter rules. Checked by Breakreach, not by YouTube.
- Links in the description
- https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/49733199https://goo.gl/So4XIGhttps://goo.gl/fBzr7
- Hashtags
- None in the title or description
- Category
- Education
- Published
- Jun 16, 2020
Counts and checks by Breakreach, from the data YouTube returns.
Example: a video on YouTube right now
From YouTube
1:20How to Add Chapters to Your Videos Using Timestamps
YouTube Creators · 2.8M views
Watch on YouTubeHow to copy a YouTube video's title and description
- Copy the video's linkFrom the address bar, or Share > Copy link in the app. Videos, Shorts, live streams and youtu.be links all work.
- Paste it aboveThe title and the whole description appear as the channel wrote them, line breaks and links included.
- Copy or downloadCopy the title, the description or both at once, or download them as a .txt file to keep.
The text is the one in the video's original language. If the channel added translations, viewers in other languages may see a translated title and description on YouTube.
Find a video's description without a tool
The description sits under the video. YouTube shows its first few lines, then a "Show more" link on a computer and "more" on a phone (YouTube Help). Open it to read the rest, and on a computer select the text to copy it.
That works for one video. The extractor is quicker when you want the exact text with its line breaks, the length of each field, or the links and chapters pulled out for you.
How long a YouTube title and description can be
| Title | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Limit | 100 characters | 5,000 characters |
| Not allowed | < and > | < and > |
| What viewers see | Sometimes only the start: keep the important words first | The first few lines, before "Show more" |
One detail: YouTube Help gives the description's limit in characters, while the Data API gives it as 5,000 bytes. For plain English it's the same. Emoji and scripts like Hindi take several bytes per character, so a description full of them can hit the limit before the counter reads 5,000. Our counters count characters as you see them.
What viewers see before "Show more"
YouTube doesn't give a number of characters. It says viewers see the first few lines before they click "Show more", and advises using those lines to describe the video (YouTube Help). Look at how the video you pasted opens: the first two lines usually say what it is, with the main search words, and the links come after.
BreakreachSeen how they write theirs? Schedule your next upload. Breakreach uploads your video to YouTube at the time you pick, with its title and description, from a calendar or from ChatGPT and Claude.
Schedule a YouTube videoLinks, hashtags and chapters in a description
- LinksThe extractor lists every link in the description, in order, untouched. Whether they're clickable on YouTube depends on the channel: the YouTube Data API documentation ties that to requirements such as channel verification or advanced features.
- HashtagsUp to 3 of the hashtags in a title or description show by the title; with more than 60, YouTube ignores them all (YouTube Help).
- ChaptersYouTube turns timestamps in the description into chapters when the first is 0:00, there are at least three in ascending order, and each chapter lasts 10 seconds or more (YouTube Help). The extractor checks the timestamps against these rules; that check is ours, not YouTube's.
- Automatic chaptersSome videos get chapters YouTube makes itself. Those aren't written in the description, so no extractor can show them.
Can you reuse another video's title or description?
Read them, learn from them, and write your own. A copied description tells viewers and YouTube nothing new about your video, and YouTube's own advice is a unique description for each one. What's worth taking is the structure: how the first lines hook, where the chapters and links go, how many hashtags there are.
Then write yours: the YouTube title generator and the YouTube description generator open on the video's topic when you follow the links under the extractor. For the tags, use the YouTube tag extractor.
Titles and descriptions, answered.
Short answers about copying a YouTube video's title and description.
Paste the video's link in the extractor and press Copy the description, or Copy both for the title too. On YouTube itself, open the description with "Show more" and select the text.
Yes, with no sign-up and no captcha. It reads up to 40 videos an hour for free.
100 for the title and 5,000 for the description, according to YouTube Help. The Data API counts the description in bytes, so emoji and some scripts use the limit faster.
Yes. Paste a /shorts/, /live/ or youtu.be link as it is.
Either the description has no timestamps, or the video's chapters are automatic: YouTube makes those itself and doesn't write them in the description.
No. Only public and unlisted videos, with their link, return a title and description.
The extractor shows the original title. If the channel added translations, YouTube may show you the one in your language.
Yes. Download .txt saves the title and description in a text file, line breaks included.
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