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YouTube Video Metrics

In a Google Sheet, select Extensions → YT Tracker → Track YouTube Videos. YT Tracker creates a header in your Google Sheet with the default columns. Now, you are ready to fetch video metrics.

Paste one or more video URLs/IDs in the first column of the sheet. YT Tracker calls the YouTube APIs and updates the sheet with the data. By default YT Tracker updates the sheet with 8 different metrics from the available 25 metrics. You can check available data points section to know how you can bring the other metrics you may need to the sheet.

yt tracker fetching video metrics

How to get the Video ID

New version of YT Tracker can fetch video data even if you paste video URLs in the first column.

Video ID is the unique identifier of a YouTube video. You can get it from the address bar of the browser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V34z9tOxxE

The highlighted part of the URL mentioned above is the video ID. In other words, the string followed by v= and preceded by & (if it exists) in the YouTube video URL is the video ID.