YouTube Tag Extractor

Tags are keywords or text identifiers that are specified along with YouTube videos and Shorts. These keywords act as metadata and give a crisp idea of many details relating to the video, such as -

• what the video contains
• who the video is targeted for
• search strings that lead to the video
• Region-specific keywords, and much more.

Tags can be a mix of alphanumeric characters that are not case-sensitive.

But do not confuse these tags with Hashtags (#tag). You can see hashtags appear in the description box below a video, while tags are not visible. Creators add tags to YouTube videos when they upload them.

You can extract tags from any YouTube video of your competitors or domain experts to learn how they leverage more audience. Since these tags are invisible, you can use our YouTube tag extractor to generate all tags added to a video within seconds.

Follow these steps to extract tags from YouTube videos and Shorts -

1. Copy the URL of the target YouTube video from either of the options below-
2. If you open the video or shorts on a mobile device through the YouTube app, click on the Share icon and select Copy link.
3. If you open the video or shorts in your device browser, copy the link from the browser's address bar.
4. Past the URL of the target video for tag extraction in our YouTube tag finder’s URL input text box.
5. Click on the Create button to extract the associated video tags.
6. Copy the tags to another file for future reference.

YouTube is one of the top video hosting and streaming platforms across the world. Its success is due to creators' ability to use multiple tags and keywords in their videos.

These YouTube video tags help users locate the right videos that they search for and hence improve the accuracy of their search results. This process is commonly referred to as Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for videos.

Video creators add tags to their videos in the following manner -

1. Open your YouTube account and locate the video to be uploaded.
2. Click on the video Details tab and click on Show More.
3. Once the tab expands, type your video tags under the Tags section.

Tags have a total limit of 500 characters. So you can add any number of tags of any length till you exhaust the limit.

When you extract tags from a YouTube video, you get rich information. You can also extract tags from YouTube shorts with our tag extractor. Similarly, you can get tags associated with a YouTube channel or a live stream with the associated URL.

Let us see some of the top reasons why YouTube tags are useful for advertisers and digital marketers -

1. Target competitor keywords - When you extract tags from top videos in your domain, you get to see the top trending keywords that attract maximum audience. You can further use some of these tags to improve your video SEO.
2. Analyze suitable tags for videos - as much as you can add many tags to your videos, focussing on highly relevant keywords from videos can boost your video’s search rank.
3. Understand common search terms - search queries can contain abbreviations, short forms, or jumbled keywords. Using these terms as tags will help you locate the right videos addressing them.
4. Keyword optimization - extracting niche tags from top videos helps find keywords with high search volume. Using such high-volume yet relevant keywords can improve your search rankings.

1. You can extract tags from our YouTube tag finder without any premium subscription.
2. You need not be a YouTube creator or have a YouTube account to use the tool.
3. Accessible through mobile devices and desktop browsers.
4. There are no limits on the number of videos and tags extracted.