YouTube Travel Videos Metadata Index
A YouTube (Travel Videos Metadata Index) dataset of 2,267 travel-related YouTube video records, collected by Samuel & Audrey Media Network via YouTube API (2026). Each record contains video titles, descriptions, region tags, topic tags, view counts, publication years, and validity flags. The dataset is notable for its metadata-only index designed for travel video archive search, regional coverage analysis, and linking video records with transcript datasets and destination research. Intended for research into tourism communication research, creator-media analysis, regional coverage analysis, and retrieval workflows across travel videos, transcripts, and article corpora.
Cite this dataset at
youtube-travel.echo.directory
Analytics
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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
youtube-travel- Authors
- Jeffery, Samuel; Bergner, Audrey
- Year
- 2026
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.5281/zenodo.20400600
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) (CC-BY-NC-4.0)
- Records
- 2,267
- Text corpus
- video metadata
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2026 (2020s)
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://zenodo.org/records/20400600 link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 7.4 MB across 15 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@misc{https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20400600,
doi = {10.5281/ZENODO.20400600},
url = {https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.20400600},
author = {Jeffery, Samuel and Bergner, Audrey},
keywords = {YouTube, travel video metadata, creator archive, video archive, bilingual media, travel media, travel videos, video metadata, tourism communication, metadata index, retrieval, YouTube archive},
language = {en},
title = {YouTube Travel Videos Metadata Index},
publisher = {Zenodo},
year = {2026},
copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Jeffery, S., & Bergner, A. (2026). YouTube Travel Videos Metadata Index [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20400600
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Jeffery, Samuel, and Audrey Bergner. YouTube Travel Videos Metadata Index. 2026, doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20400600.