Free YouTube tools that actually work

Grab a thumbnail in full resolution, build an embed code with the options YouTube does not give you, or pull video IDs out of a hundred links at once. No account, nothing to install, and nothing leaves your browser.Thumbnail Downloader Embed Generator ID Extractor

The tools

Each one does a single job properly. Everything runs in your browser, so nothing you paste is sent to us or stored anywhere.

Thumbnail DownloaderPull the thumbnail from any video in every size YouTube generated, up to 1280 x 720. Sizes that do not exist are filtered out instead of showing you a grey placeholder.Embed Code GeneratorBuild an iframe with a start time, looping, hidden controls or privacy-enhanced mode. Live preview before you copy, so you see exactly what your visitors will get.Video ID ExtractorGet the eleven-character ID out of any link shape. Paste a whole block of text or hundreds of links at once and copy the results as a list or CSV.

A Tag Extractor, Channel Stats lookup, Playlist Duration Calculator and Comment Picker are in progress.

Looking to download a video?

Worth being straight with you, given the name of this site: we do not offer a video downloader, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.

Downloading videos is against YouTube’s Terms of Service unless a download button is offered inside YouTube itself, and the videos are almost always someone else’s copyrighted work. Sites that promise it tend to break every few weeks, bury the button under redirects, and lean on advertising that is worse than what it pays for.

What we can do is explain your legitimate options honestly. YouTube Premium has offline viewing built in. Creators can download their own uploads from YouTube Studio. Videos published under a Creative Commons licence can be reused within that licence. Our guides below cover the specifics, including for other platforms.

Guides

Plain explanations of how downloading, sharing and saving actually work across the major platforms.

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How this site works

Every tool here runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript. When you paste a link, your own browser reads the video ID out of it and requests the relevant public image or builds the code locally. Nothing is uploaded to a server, no history is kept, and there is no account to create.

The site is paid for by advertising, which is why you will see ads on these pages. We would rather say that plainly than claim to be ad-free while running them. How advertising cookies work here is set out in our privacy policy, and what we do and do not claim is covered in the disclaimer.

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