You can see YouTube Tags in the in-line Javascript in the source code of the video.
On any given video, you can right-click on the page and choose to “View Source”

Once you have the page source open, just CTRL-F for the “keywords” meta tag – and get the tags that the author used.

To view tags on mobile, you will have to sub in view-source:https://m.youtube.com/
in your mobile browser. Then CTRL-F.

This is all a bit more confusing than before.
Before 2018, YouTube placed the tags in the <meta name=”keywords” content=”[keywords]”> field within the view-source code for any video.
Whether you are researching YouTube for your own content or you are trying to optimize your own YouTube videos – competitor tags can provide a ton of insight. It’s like free keyword research.
If you want to see them directly in videos like pre-2018, check out this YouTube extension for Chrome.
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