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YouTube Description Extractor

The full description with its links and timestamps preserved, not flattened into text.

Input
Description

Paste a video link. The description keeps its links and timestamps.

  • Free · needs a video link
  • Reads public data only
  • Cached to protect quota
What this does

This returns the full public description with links and timestamp lines left in place. We do not flatten it into a paragraph.

If the video has no description, the result is empty and says so.

Use cases
  1. 01Copy a description into a brief without losing the chapter times.
  2. 02Pull outbound links from a video without opening every one by hand.
  3. 03Keep a local copy before a creator edits the box.
Glossary
YouTube tagsYouTube chaptersDescription timestamps
FAQ

Questions, answered.

Do you follow the links?

No. We copy the text YouTube already shows.

Do I need an account?

No.

Is anything stored?

Not on the free tier.

From the notebook
How YouTube captions actually workWhere timed text lives, what a cue really contains, how the official Captions API differs from the public player track, and why cleanup is the whole job.
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