Why can't I copy the description in the YouTube app?

Because the app often does not let you select that text. Copy the link with Share › Copy link, paste it here and use the “Copy description” button.

Do I get the full description?

Yes, all of it: up to 5,000 characters, the most YouTube lets a channel write, with the original line breaks.

Does it work for a channel's description?

No, only for each video's. If you paste a channel link, the Basic plan gives you the list of its videos, each with its description, but not the channel's about text.

Yes, no card: 5 videos per day without an account, or 10 per day and 300 per month with a free account.

YouTube description extractor and copier

In the YouTube phone app, selecting the description text is hard or simply not possible, and on a computer copying all of it, links and chapters included, is clumsy. Paste the link of a public video and we show you the full description, exactly as the channel wrote it, with a button to copy it in one go. We read it from the official YouTube API: you get the exact text, line breaks included.

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What it shows

The whole description, with line breaks, links and hashtags exactly as the channel wrote them.
A “Copy description” button that puts it on your clipboard, on your phone too.
The chapter timestamps (0:00, 1:23…), which live inside the description.
The video's title and tags, with their own copy button.
The video's publish date.

What it does not include

Only the video's description. Not a channel's own about text, nor comments, the pinned comment or subtitles. If the channel edited the description, you see the current version: YouTube does not publish earlier ones.

What it is for

Copy the links a creator left in the description without typing them.
Take the chapter list of a long video to use as an index.
See how the top videos in your niche write their descriptions.
Recover the description of one of your own videos to reuse it on another.

How to use it

Copy the video link (watch?v=, youtu.be and shorts all work).
Paste it in the box above and press Extract.
Tap “Copy description” and paste it wherever you need it.

What is inside a YouTube description

YouTube allows up to 5,000 characters. The video page shows the first lines and hides the rest behind “more”; here you get it all at once. Links come out as the channel typed them, without the redirect YouTube adds on its own page.

Chapters are lines that start with a timestamp, like “0:00 Intro”. YouTube builds them only if the first one is 0:00 and there are at least three, each 10 seconds or longer. Paste the list into another video with the same times and the chapters build the same way.

Descriptions for a whole playlist?

With the Basic plan you paste a playlist or a channel and download a CSV with one row per video and the full description in a column, next to the title, tags and date.

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Frequently asked questions

Why can't I copy the description in the YouTube app?: Because the app often does not let you select that text. Copy the link with Share › Copy link, paste it here and use the “Copy description” button.
Do I get the full description?: Yes, all of it: up to 5,000 characters, the most YouTube lets a channel write, with the original line breaks.
Does it work for a channel's description?: No, only for each video's. If you paste a channel link, the Basic plan gives you the list of its videos, each with its description, but not the channel's about text.
Is it free?: Yes, no card: 5 videos per day without an account, or 10 per day and 300 per month with a free account.