# Video Metadata Checker -- Free URL Metadata Extractor

Check public video metadata from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, and Facebook. Paste a URL to fetch title, author, stats, duration, and thumbnail instantly.

## What it does

Paste a video URL and instantly fetch the public metadata behind it. One checker for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, and Facebook.

## How it works

1. **Paste a public video URL**: Use a video link from any supported platform.
2. **Fetch the metadata instantly**: The tool returns a structured response with title, author, platform, duration, thumbnail, and available public stats.
3. **Export or reuse the result**: Copy the JSON, enrich a database, or pass the metadata into your next automation step.

## Use cases

- **Link enrichment**: Turn raw URLs into useful objects inside CRMs, CMSes, dashboards, and internal tools.
- **Video QA and validation**: Quickly check that a public video exists and inspect its basic properties before spending credits on deeper processing.
- **Cross-platform research**: Compare public performance and metadata from multiple video platforms in one place.

## FAQ

### What counts as metadata here?

Metadata includes fields like title, author, platform, duration, thumbnail, and public engagement fields such as views or likes when the source exposes them.

### Is metadata free?

Yes. Veedcrawl treats metadata as the lightest operation and uses it as a fast first step before transcript or extract workflows.

### Does this work across platforms?

Yes. This tool is built specifically to give you one metadata checker across multiple supported social-video platforms.

## Related

- https://veedcrawl.com/tools/tiktok-video-info
- https://veedcrawl.com/tools/youtube-video-info
- https://veedcrawl.com/tools/social-media-transcript