Runs in your browser
Description Character Counter
Count against the 5,000-character limit and see the 157 characters that show before “Show more”.
YouTube allows 5,000 characters.
Character count
Description length5,000 characters left
0 / 5,000Visible before “Show more”Only this much shows without expanding
157Above the fold
Type a description to see the preview.
Same job, one API call
Runs in your browser — nothing is sent anywhere.
Questions
How much of a description shows in search?
About the first 157 characters — two short lines. Links, chapters, and boilerplate belong below the fold; the first two lines should say what the video is.
Do links and hashtags count toward the limit?
Yes — every character, URLs and timestamps included, draws from the same 5,000. Long tracking URLs eat the budget quickly.
How many hashtags can I use?
The first three display above the title. More than 60 hashtags makes YouTube ignore all of them, so keep it to a few relevant ones.
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