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YouTube Description Extractor

Paste a video link to get its full description as plain text, with every link, email address, hashtag and timestamp in it listed separately.

What is a YouTube description extractor?

A description extractor gets the full text a creator wrote under a video, exactly as saved, with its line breaks. Copying it from YouTube means expanding the description first, and the selection often picks up buttons and counts from around it.

Beyond the plain text, the tool pulls out what's inside: every web link, email address, hashtag and chapter timestamp, each in its own list you can copy. It also shows the video's hidden tags separately. That's useful for collecting the links a tutorial references, checking how a successful video structures its description, saving a recipe or setlist, or finding a creator's contact email when they've written it in the description.

How to copy a YouTube video description

  1. 1.Paste the video link

    Copy the address of the video whose description you want, from the browser or the Share button, and press Get description.

  2. 2.Read the description

    The full description appears with its line breaks, along with the video's views, likes, comments and character count.

  3. 3.Copy what you need

    Copy or download the whole description, or copy just the links, emails, hashtags, timestamps or tags.

Example: what gets pulled out

Take a description with a sponsor link, a contact email, chapters and two hashtags.

Links
https://example.com/course
Emails
hello@example.com
Timestamps
0:00 Intro · 2:15 Setup · 9:40 Results
Hashtags
#python #tutorial

Each list has its own copy button, so the three chapter lines can go straight into notes without the rest of the text.

More than copy and paste

Selecting a description on YouTube means expanding it first and often picks up extra text from the page. This tool gets the description exactly as the creator wrote it, straight from the YouTube Data API.

It also lists what's inside: every web link, email address and hashtag, and timestamp lines like 0:00 Intro. The video's tags, which YouTube hides from viewers, are listed too, separately from the description.

Frequently asked questions

How do I copy a YouTube video description?

Paste the video link above and press Get description, then press Copy. The text keeps its line breaks.

Why isn't a creator's business email listed?

Only emails written in the description are found. The business email behind YouTube's View email address button isn't part of the public data.

Does this get the video's transcript?

No. The description is the text the creator wrote below the video, not what is said in it. YouTube shows captions under the video's …more menu, in Show transcript.

Does it work with Shorts?

Yes. Paste a Shorts link and you get its description the same way.

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