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TubeKeyword

YouTube Keyword Generator

Turn one topic into a list of real YouTube search phrases. TubeKeyword collects what autocomplete suggests for your seed, adds questions and A–Z variations, and sorts everything so you can pick keywords for your title, description and tags.

Start with one topic

Type the main subject of your next video. TubeKeyword asks YouTube autocomplete what people type after it, then sorts the answers into long-tail ideas and questions.

How it works

From one topic to a keyword list in three steps

  1. Enter one topic

    Type the main subject of your video, like “budget travel” or “sourdough bread”. Two words is usually enough.

  2. We ask YouTube autocomplete

    TubeKeyword sends your topic, plus question starters or a to z letters, to YouTube autocomplete through our data provider and collects every suggestion.

  3. Sort, filter and export

    Duplicates are removed, each keyword is tagged as long-tail, question, A–Z or related, and you can copy or export the ones you want.

Data methodology

What the results are, and what they are not

Everything on the results table comes from YouTube autocomplete or from a rule written out below.

Where keywords come from

Each lookup asks YouTube autocomplete, through our data provider YepAPI, what follows a query. Position is the place a keyword held in that list. Duplicates across lookups are removed, keeping the first occurrence.

How keywords are labelled

  • Long-tail: four words or more.
  • Question: starts with how, what, why, when, where, which, who, can, is, are, does, should, will, or ends with a question mark.
  • A–Z: returned for your seed followed by a letter.
  • Related: returned for one of your seed’s top 5 suggestions (Deep mode).

Relevance score (relevance-v1)

A TubeKeyword estimate from 0 to 100: up to 60 points for the share of your seed’s words the keyword contains, up to 30 for its autocomplete position, and 10 when it contains your whole seed phrase. It helps you sort, and nothing more.

Limitations

  • No search volume, CPC, difficulty or ranking data is shown, because YouTube does not publish it.
  • Suggestions are not country or language specific yet; your selection is stored for video research.
  • Lists are cached for up to 12 hours, and each search shows when its data was fetched.
  • A Deep search runs 38 lookups, so fair-use limits apply per visitor.

Full details are in our data disclaimer.

FAQ

Keyword generator questions

Straight answers about where the data comes from and what it can and cannot tell you.