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YouTube Video Statistics

Get YouTube video stats: views, likes, channel, duration, and publish date from any video URL.

Paste a YouTube video URL and this tool returns the video's public statistics — views, likes, channel, duration, and publish date — in seconds. It scrapes the metadata YouTube embeds in the page rather than calling the Data API, so there's no key, no quota, and no sign-in. Use it to log a video's performance, compare competitors' numbers, or track how views and likes grow over time.

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Quick answer

Paste a YouTube video URL and this tool returns the video's public statistics — views, likes, channel, duration, and publish date — in seconds. It scrapes the metadata YouTube embeds in the page rather than calling the Data API, so there's no key, no quota, and no sign-in. Use it to log a video's performance, compare competitors' numbers, or track how views and likes grow over time.

What is YouTube Video Statistics?

YouTube Video Statistics extracts the key public metrics of any YouTube video from its URL — view count, like count, channel name, video duration, and publish date. It reads the metadata YouTube embeds in the video page, so you get the numbers without opening the video or logging in. It's a fast way to check or record a video's performance snapshot for analytics, research, and reporting.

How to use YouTube Video Statistics

  1. 1

    Copy the video link

    Take the URL of any public YouTube video — a standard watch link, a youtu.be short link, or a Shorts URL.

  2. 2

    Paste it into the tool

    Drop the link in and run it. The tool resolves the video ID and reads the metadata embedded in the video page.

  3. 3

    Read the stats

    You get the view count, like count, channel, duration, and publish date in a compact snapshot.

  4. 4

    Record or repeat

    Save the numbers for your report, or re-run the same video later to track how its views and likes change over time.

Try it when you need to…

  • Try it when you need to log a video's current views and likes for a performance report
  • Try it when you want a competitor's public video numbers without any access to their channel
  • Try it when you're tracking how a video's views grow day over day

Use cases

  • Video analytics — capture a video's view, like, and duration snapshot for a report
  • Content research — check how a topic or format performs before you cover it yourself
  • Competitor analysis — pull public stats on rival channels' videos without their access
  • Engagement tracking — record view and like counts over time to watch a video's trajectory
  • Data collection — gather stats across a list of videos for a spreadsheet or study

Key features

View count and like count
Channel name and video title
Video duration
Publish date
No YouTube API key required — reads public page metadata

Tips & best practices

View counts update on a delay and are periodically audited by YouTube to strip out spam and non-genuine plays — that's why a fast-rising video's counter can briefly freeze around 300 views or jump in steps. Treat a single reading as a snapshot, not a live meter.

Like counts are public but dislike counts are not — YouTube removed the public dislike number in late 2021. Any tool claiming to show real dislikes is estimating from third-party data, not reading it from YouTube.

To track a video over time, record the same stat at consistent intervals (for example, once a day). The delta between readings is far more meaningful than any single absolute number.

Some creators hide their like count in Studio; when that's the case the number simply isn't in the page metadata and can't be extracted.

Frequently asked questions

No. It reads the publicly available metadata embedded in the video's page, so there's no API key, no OAuth, and no daily quota to hit.

YouTube updates view counts on a delay and periodically audits them to remove spam or invalid plays. Small discrepancies and brief freezes are normal — the counter is an audited, slightly-lagged number, not a real-time tally.

No. YouTube removed the public dislike count in November 2021, so it isn't available in the page data. Any dislike figure elsewhere is a third-party estimate, not an official number.

Yes for Shorts and for finished live streams, which expose the same public metadata as regular videos. Currently-live streams show concurrent-viewer figures that fluctuate second to second, so a reading is only a moment-in-time snapshot.

Creators can hide the like count on their videos. When it's hidden, the number isn't present in the page metadata and therefore can't be extracted — the other stats still return normally.

The tool reads one video's stats per URL. For a batch, run each video and collect the results into a spreadsheet — since there's no API quota, you're not limited by request caps.