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Python 3 Script to Extract YouTube Video Metadata and Tags Using yt-dlp Library in Terminal
Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video I will show you a Python
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script which will return the metadata
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about a certain YouTube video and it
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will also return the tags which are used
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inside YouTube videos so this is
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actually the Python script uh you can
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actually take any video from YouTube so
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let me paste this YouTube video URL
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inside the script so it will return the
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metadata information regarding the
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script so if I run this script now you
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will see on the left hand side it will
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create a JSON
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file it will extract all the metadata
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from this YouTube video and save this
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inside this JSON file so on the left
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hand side you will see it has created
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this JSON file if I try to open this you
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will see the title of the video then we
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also get all the tags which are used in
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the video you will see array of
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tags then we get the channel name and
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date of the upload we also get the
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description as well and we also get how
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much long is the video duration in
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seconds so this we are all getting
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without using any sort of API you don't
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need to replace any API key so it's a
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free package inside Python you can use
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it unlimited number of time you will see
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it can web scrape all this information
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such as the title descriptions the tags
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which are used right here and all this
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information uh there is a free package
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here let me show you yt DLP so this is
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actually the name of the package here uh
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so the command is very simple you simply
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execute this pip command i've already
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installed
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it so once you install this uh let me
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show you the script here i've given the
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script in the description of this video
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so if you need you
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can go to the description and uh
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just get the full script so first of all
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what you need to do you need to import
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this module so import
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ytlp and then we also need to import the
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JSON
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module and then here you need to specify
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which you YouTube video you need to get
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the metadata so you can just paste any
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video let me take a different video let
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me take this video copy link address and
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simply paste it so after that you will
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specify the options right here
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so here you will
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specify these are the options
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quite and skip
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download to true so you just need to set
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these options first of all and
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force JSON so you need to force this
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application to return the data in a JSON
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format so we are applying these three
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options so after that we just need to
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use this module so we simply say with
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yt dlp and it contains this function
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YouTubedl ytdl
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options
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as and then it contains this function
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which
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is extract info so this is actually by
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which you can extract the metadata of
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the video here you pass the video URL as
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the first argument
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and then we also pass the second one
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download is equal to
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false so once you get this
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info now we need to extract the
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information from this because this let
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me let me print it out and uh execute
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this application so you will see the
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data will be returned to you so we now
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need to extract the data so this JSON
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will be returned to you in the command
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line but we need to uh extract the
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necessary data that is there so it
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basically returns all this garbage of
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data we need to extract the useful
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information so now for extracting the
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useful information we will simply create
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an
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object data object and here we specify
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the properties first information we need
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to get the title of the window the title
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of the video so
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info.get title then we also need to get
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the
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tags which are helpful for search engine
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optimization so we will get all the tags
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which are used in that
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video uh then we also can get the
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channel name which channel name has
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uploaded this video so info.get
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uploader then we also can get
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description of the video and uh you can
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even get the thumbnail as well duration
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as well number of views as well the
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number of likes dislike so everything
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you can get guys using this approach so
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we actually get all these things title
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tags uploaded description thumbnail
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duration view count like count dislike
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count everything so after that we can
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save this information in a JSON file so
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we simply say with
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open and then we can create a brand new
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file metadata.json
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JSON and then we simply dump this J uh J
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JSON data
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inside and then we can print out a
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simple line
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here video metadata has been saved so
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that's all this is actually the script
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here and if I execute the script you
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will see all this data will be saved
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inside a JSON file
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so you will see it has saved the data
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inside this JSON file uh if I try to
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open this you will see this is actually
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the title all the tags have been
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extracted we get the channel name
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description thumbnail the duration
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number of views which is number of
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likes so everything has been scraped
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guys if you see uh the video
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page you can see everything has been
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scraped number of likes description
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title channel name everything so in this
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easy way inside Python you can extract
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the metadata of any YouTube video and
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for this we haven't used the API key at
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all it's a web scraping module which uh
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actually interacts with the YouTube API
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behind the scenes and it returns all
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this information in a JSON file so the
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script is given guys in the description
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of this video you can get the full
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script so thank you very much for
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