YouTube Shadowban Detector
YouTube has no official shadowban status. This checks the public signals that do limit reach — privacy, age restriction, region blocks, disabled comments, inactivity — and scores them.
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Frequently asked questions
YouTube has no official shadowban status. It does limit where some content appears, which is what people usually mean by the term.
For a video: privacy, upload status, age restriction, region blocks, disabled comments and embeds, and views. For a channel: its public statistics and signals across its latest uploads, such as inactivity or restricted videos.
It starts at 100 and deducts points for each limiting signal. 80+ means no obvious issues, 50–79 some signals, under 50 several.
No. Recommendations depend on viewer behaviour and many factors the public API doesn't expose.
No. Every tool is free and needs no account. Nothing you paste is stored: the request is processed and the result is sent back to your browser.
The shared YouTube Data API quota resets daily. If it runs out, open Advanced options and paste your own YouTube Data API v3 key; it is used for that one request and never saved.