YouTube Description Extractor — Full Text, No “…more”
Pull a video's full description as plain text — including the part behind “…more”.
Quick answer: Paste a link and this tool returns the video's description in full — the visible first paragraphs and the part collapsed behind “…more” — as clean text you can copy in one click. Links and line breaks are preserved; no login, no upload, no account.
What you see here is everything, including the part the interface hides behind “…more”. YouTube allows up to 5,000 characters per description; if the creator used fewer, you get exactly what they wrote.
Core facts
| What you get | The complete description, not the truncated preview |
|---|---|
| Length limit on YouTube | 5,000 characters per video |
| Format | Plain text with original line breaks, ready to copy |
| Also useful for | Timestamps, credits, affiliate-disclosure and source lists buried at the bottom |
What this tool does
Descriptions are where creators put the information that does not fit on screen: chapter timestamps, sources, credits, product links and legal notes. The interface collapses them after a couple of lines, which makes copying anything past the fold fiddly, especially on a phone. This tool returns the whole text in one block.
Common uses
- Copy chapter timestamps into notes without retyping
- Archive a description before a video is edited or removed
- Translate or summarise a long description in another app
- Check how a channel formats its standard description template
- Collect source lists and credits for research
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the whole description really available?
Yes — the collapsed “...more” state is a display choice, not a storage limit. The page data carries the description up to YouTube's 5,000-character cap, and that is what this tool returns.
Do you keep a copy of what I extract?
No. The text is fetched for your request and returned to the browser; there is no database, no history and no account attached to it.
Can it extract comments or subtitles?
No. This page reads the description field only. Comments and captions are different systems, and scraping them raises different questions that this site stays out of.