YouTube Travel Videos Metadata Index Legacy Version

A 2.1 MB legacy archive of structured metadata for travel-related YouTube videos published by the Samuel & Audrey Media Network. Samuel Jeffery deposited this earlier dataset package, which includes video IDs, URLs, publication years, tags, language context, and view counts at export time. This version is archived for historical continuity and is not the current recommended dataset.

Use Cases

• Organizing video records based on YouTube video IDs and source URLs mentioned in the description.
• Searching for travel content based on creator-defined topic tags and regional tags.
• Connecting metadata with related transcript datasets and destination research archives.
• Analyzing publication trends over time based on publication years.
• Studying viewership patterns using view counts at export time.

Strengths

• Includes multiple export formats (CSV and JSONL) and supporting documentation files.
• Contains structured metadata fields such as video IDs, publication years, and view counts.
• Licensed under CC-BY-4.0 for open use.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Metadata is a legacy version and may not reflect the latest cleaned data.
• View counts and other YouTube metadata may have changed after export.

Provenance

Source

Samuel & Audrey Media Network YouTube videos.

Collection Method

Metadata export from YouTube.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-31 17:04:09; freshness should be verified.