YouTube Upload Date Finder
Find the exact upload date and time of any YouTube video. Get UTC, local time, ISO 8601, and Unix timestamp formats. Free, no account needed.
YouTube's API returns a video's publication timestamp — the moment it became publicly visible, which may differ from the original upload time for scheduled or previously private videos.
How It Works
Paste a URL
Paste any YouTube video URL — watch, Shorts, live, embed, youtu.be, or raw ID.
Find Upload Date
Click Find Upload Date. The tool fetches the exact publication date and time from the YouTube API.
Copy Any Format
Copy the date in long, short, ISO, or Unix timestamp format. Convert between UTC and your local timezone.
How to Find the Exact Upload Date of a YouTube Video
You can technically find a rough upload date without any tool — but YouTube's video page doesn't tell you the whole story. Here's the difference between what YouTube shows you and what this tool gives you.
What YouTube shows you
- –A simplified date, like 'Aug 14, 2024'
- –Or a relative age, like '2 years ago' or '3 weeks ago'
- –No time of day, and no timezone context
- –No machine-readable format for scripts or spreadsheets
What this tool shows you
- ✓The exact publication date, down to the second
- ✓Both UTC time and your local timezone
- ✓ISO 8601 and Unix timestamp formats for developers
- ✓One-click copy for any format you need
How to See the Exact Time a YouTube Video Was Uploaded
A video's watch page doesn't display a publication time — only a date, and sometimes not even that precisely. This tool retrieves the video's publication timestamp directly from the YouTube Data API and breaks it down into the formats different people actually need:
UTC
The raw timestamp YouTube's API returns. Useful for comparing upload times across creators in different countries on a level playing field.
Local time
The same moment converted to your device's timezone, so you can read it the way you'd read any other date and time.
ISO 8601
A standardized, machine-readable format used in databases, APIs, and most programming languages.
Unix timestamp
The number of seconds since 1970 — the format spreadsheets, scripts, and backend systems tend to expect.
How to Check When Another Channel Uploaded a YouTube Short
This tool isn't limited to your own videos. Paste the URL of any public video, Short, or live stream from any channel and you'll get the same exact publication date and time breakdown. That makes it useful for competitor research — seeing exactly when a channel posts its Shorts, or comparing upload timing between creators covering the same topic. Just paste a youtube.com/shorts/ link the same way you would a regular watch URL — no extra steps needed.
Frequently asked questions
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