Free YouTube SEO Tools That Just Work.
Extract video tags, pull channel keywords, export full video metadata to CSV, analyze description style, and find the best time to post - each in its own free tool, backed by YouTube's own public data. No account, no trial, no paywall.
Tags & Keywords
YouTube Tag Extractor
Paste any YouTube video link to reveal every tag its creator added - copy them all in one click.
Open toolYouTube Channel Keywords
Pull the keyword list a channel sets in its own settings - different from per-video tags.
Open toolTop Tags Across a Channel
See which tags a channel reuses most across its recent uploads, ranked by frequency.
Open toolAnalytics & Timing
Channel Video Data Exporter
Full metadata table of a channel's recent uploads - views, likes, comments, tags, duration. Exportable.
Open toolYouTube Description Extractor
Read every recent description and spot the writing pattern behind it - split by long-form vs Shorts.
Open toolBest Time to Post on YouTube
Discover a channel's best upload day and hour from its own history - converted to your timezone automatically.
Open toolTop Title Formulas Across a Channel
See the top title formulas a channel actually uses - questions, lists, how-tos, or comparisons ranked by frequency.
Open toolHow it works
Every tool on Tubelyst follows the same three steps - no dashboard to learn first.
Paste a channel or video link
No login screen first - every tool starts with a single input for a handle, channel URL, or video URL.
We check the real numbers
Nothing is scraped or estimated. Every result reflects the same public data YouTube itself shows on the video or channel.
Read it, sort it, or export it
Browse the result on the page, sort a table by any column, or download a CSV - all built in your browser, nothing uploaded elsewhere.
Why YouTube SEO Matters
Metadata alignment signals YouTube's ranking system
Tags help YouTube catch misspellings and disambiguate a video's topic, but they carry less weight today than titles, thumbnails, and descriptions. The difference is that those three need to agree with each other. A video whose title, description, and tags all point at the same topic gives YouTube a much clearer signal than one where they drift apart.
Early velocity matters for suggested feeds
Discovery happens through two channels: search results and suggested videos. Both lean on the same underlying signal - how closely a video's metadata and early engagement match what a viewer is already watching. That's why posting at a channel's actual best time matters beyond convenience: early view velocity is one of the strongest signals YouTube uses when deciding whether to push a video into more suggested feeds.
Real data beats guesswork
None of this is guesswork if you're willing to look at what's already working. A channel with real traction has already found tags, description patterns, and posting times that work for its audience - checking those directly is faster and more reliable than guessing at your own from scratch, which is what each tool on this page is built to do.
Why Tubelyst
Tubelyst grew out of a simple frustration: the useful parts of YouTube analytics - seeing a competitor's tags, exporting a channel's recent uploads, checking when a channel's audience is actually active - are usually locked behind a paid analytics subscription. Every tool here does one of those jobs, does it well, and stays free. There's no combined dashboard to sign up for, no upsell screen after your first lookup.
Whether you're a creator studying what's working in your niche before you script your next video, a marketer running a quick competitor check, or a researcher studying how creators structure titles and tags, these tools are built to answer one specific question quickly and get out of your way.
Free, permanently
No upsell screen after your first lookup, no trial clock running in the background. Every tool stays free the same way it is today.
Real YouTube data
Every result comes from YouTube's own public data endpoints - never scraped, never estimated. If a channel changes its tags tomorrow, a lookup tomorrow reflects that.
No account required
Every tool works without signing in. Creating a free account only raises your daily lookup limit - nothing is gated behind it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything visitors ask most about the free tools, the daily limits, and where the data comes from.
Is Tubelyst really free?
Yes. Every tool - the tag extractor, channel tags extractor, most-used tags, video data extractor, description extractor, and best-time-to-post calculator - works with no account and no payment. There is no paid tier or hidden upgrade.
Do I need to create an account?
No. All tools work anonymously. Creating a free account only raises your daily look-up limit (from a handful of anonymous look-ups to a higher signed-in limit) - it does not unlock any feature that is otherwise hidden.
Why is there a daily limit at all?
Every lookup pulls fresh data directly from YouTube, and there is a shared daily limit across all Tubelyst visitors combined. It exists to keep the tools available for everyone rather than being exhausted by a handful of heavy users, not to push you toward a paid plan - there is not one.
Where does the data come from?
Directly from YouTube itself - the same public data available on a channel videos and about page. Nothing is scraped, estimated, or generated by AI. Results are cached briefly (a few hours) to keep the tools fast.
Can I analyze a private or unlisted video?
No. These tools only read data YouTube already makes public for public videos and channels - the same information any visitor could see on the video or channel page itself.
Why does a video show 0 tags?
Many creators simply do not add tags - YouTube tags have had little effect on discovery for years, so it is common for tag lists to be empty or short. That is the actual public data, not a bug in the tool.
Why does a channel show hidden instead of a like count?
Some creators choose to hide their public like count in YouTube Studio. When that setting is on, YouTube does not provide a number at all, so the tools show hidden rather than a false zero.
What is the difference between video tags and channel tags?
Video tags are set per-upload and describe that specific video. Channel keywords are set once in a channel own settings and describe the channel as a whole. The Video Tag Extractor reads the former; the Channel Tags Extractor reads the latter - they are often completely different lists.
How does the best-time-to-post tool know my timezone?
It reads your browser timezone automatically and converts every result to it. If that is wrong - you are traveling, or checking times for a different audience - use the Not your timezone? link on that page to pick any UTC offset manually.
Can I export the data?
Yes - the Video Data Extractor includes a Download CSV button that builds the file directly in your browser from the data already on the page. Nothing is uploaded to a third party to generate it.
Is my data or IP address stored?
Visitor IP addresses are hashed (never stored raw) purely to enforce the daily look-up limit. See the Privacy Policy for the complete breakdown of what is and is not collected.
Is Tubelyst affiliated with YouTube or Google?
No. Tubelyst is an independent tool built on YouTube public available data; it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube or Google.