Caption coverage check

Check 10 videos

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Check a channel

Channel handle or id Entity size Population 50,000 or more Population under 50,000 Special district Not sure I own this channel or am authorized to audit it

Check 10 videos

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What it will do

Give it the handle of a public YouTube channel. It reads the channel's 10 most recent public videos with the official YouTube API and shows, for each one, the date, the length, the view count and whether YouTube flags it as having captions, plus a "look at this first" band. Above the table it shows the channel's reported video count and how many it could list.

It also shows the web-rule dates for your entity size, with the source and the date we read it.

What it cannot tell you

• The flag is YouTube's "captions are available" value. YouTube's documentation does not say whether automatic captions count, so "no captions flagged" is not the same as "no captions".
• Whether captions are uploaded or automatic is documented as needing the channel owner's sign-in, so this free check does not do it.
• Caption accuracy is not checked. Captions that exist may still need review. Any accuracy figure we add later will be labelled "estimated", and any transcript will be a draft that needs human review.
• Unlisted, private and members-only videos, and videos on other players, are not included.
• Whether an older video is outside a rule depends on facts a date cannot show. The check never decides that.