Features

Features

The tabs along the top are Single, Batch, Instagram, Watermark, Tracker and Schedule, with Options on the right.

Scrub

Strips GPS location, device details, dates, encoder tags and edit history from your videos. Nothing is re-encoded, so there's no quality loss.

• Single: one video at a time.
• Batch: many videos at once.
• Options: controls exactly what gets scrubbed. The same settings are used when other features scrub for you (for example "Scrub after watermarking").

Watermark

Puts your logo on every video, so reposts still show where they came from.

1. Open Watermark and click Change logo (or drop an image on the page).
2. Pick one of nine positions, and set Size, Opacity and Margin. The preview updates live.
3. Add videos (Choose videos or drag them in) and pick a Save to folder.
4. Leave Scrub after watermarking on to strip metadata at the same time.
5. Click Watermark all.

Schedule

Upload and schedule Shorts to the YouTube channels you own.

• Connect a channel to sign in with Google. Connect as many channels as you like.
• Add videos to a channel, or give it an Inbox folder so videos dropped there are picked up.
• Spread videos across channels shares a batch out, one channel per video.
• Calendar & settings on each channel opens:
  • Weekly calendar: design the times you post each week. The Recommendations panel flags problems such as posts too close together or not enough queued videos.
  • Next 7 days: what's coming up.
  • Post settings: made for kids, AI-content disclosure, tags, hashtags on every post, text added to every description, Style notes for the AI, category, language, license, and options like Approve titles before upload and Pause this channel. Use Save as default or Apply to all channels to reuse them.
• The Queue shows every video, its channel, title, hashtags, post time and status. Videos marked Needs review wait until you click Approve (or Edit).
• The top right shows today's YouTube quota use (YouTube allows 10,000 units a day) and roughly how many more uploads fit.
• Removing a channel lets you move its waiting videos to your other channels.

AI titles

MetaScrub writes a title, description and hashtags for each video you schedule. It looks at four still frames from the video, plus its file name and that channel's Style notes for the AI, and learns from your best-performing Shorts.

This needs your own AI API key, added in Schedule → Settings (OpenRouter or Anthropic). To set it up with OpenRouter and choose a model, see OpenRouter: API Key and Choosing a Model. Without a key, nothing is sent to an AI service and titles are made from the file name instead.

A tag limit counter warns you before you go over YouTube's tag limit.

Tracker

Live stats for your channels: 24-hour and longer gains, how fast your newest Short is moving compared with usual, and which hashtags work best. Turn on Live to refresh every minute. The Tracker reads public statistics using your own YouTube API key.

Discord alerts

Get a message in your Discord server when:

• A video is uploaded: when it's scheduled on YouTube, and again when it goes live.
• Something needs you: an upload failed, a channel signed out, or the daily quota ran out.
• A Short is going viral: a recent Short is far ahead of your usual pace (for example 3× your usual views and at least 1,000 views). You get another message each time its views double. This needs the channel in the Tracker tab.

To set it up:

1. In Discord, open your server's Server Settings → Integrations → Webhooks.
2. Click New Webhook, pick the channel for alerts, then Copy Webhook URL.
3. Paste it into MetaScrub's Discord alerts window, choose which alerts you want, and click Send test message.
4. Click Save.

Update check

MetaScrub checks for new versions and tells you when one is available. Download it from the releases page.