How to copy a YouTube description on Android

Expand the description on a public YouTube watch page and select the text, or paste the watch URL into Caption Copy to copy the title, the description, or both.

What you are copying

A YouTube “caption” search usually means the title plus the public description under the video — not closed captions or a transcript. Caption Copy follows that: it does not transcribe audio.

Copy from the YouTube app

1. Open the public video.
2. Tap the title area to expand the description.
3. Press and hold to select, then Copy.

Long descriptions are slow to highlight. Timestamps and links make selection worse.

Copy with Caption Copy

Paste a public youtube.com/watch or youtu.be link. Caption Copy shows Title and Description as separate cards, with Copy title, Copy description, and Copy both.

1. Copy the video link in YouTube, or share it into Caption Copy.
2. Tap Get caption.
3. Copy only the field you need.

Get Caption Copy on Google Play

Tips

• Unlisted or private videos may not return a description.
• Hashtag stripping is for TikTok/Instagram captions. YouTube uses the title and description fields instead.

Common mistakes

• Expecting auto-generated subtitles. Those are not what this flow returns.
• Pasting a channel URL instead of a video URL.

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