See the GPS location and camera data recorded inside a video
Drop in an MP4, MOV, 3GP, MKV, WebM or AVI and read what the file records about itself: where it was shot, on what device, when, and — on action cameras and dashcams — the whole route the camera travelled. Nothing is uploaded, and nothing is even fully read: the file is examined at both ends inside your browser, so a four-gigabyte recording answers as fast as a small one.
When this helps
A phone video usually records where it was shot, and the file gives no sign of it. Uploading is what publishes it.
Check the clip first, and see exactly what a viewer could extract from it.
These cameras do not record one location — they record a position several times a second for the whole clip, which is a map of where you drove or rode.
See whether the file carries a location track, and how many points are in it.
The device, the recording time and often the coordinates are inside the file, but no player shows them.
Open it here and read the creation date, camera and location.
An editing suite writes its own XMP history into the file, and the source clip's metadata may or may not have survived the render.
Confirm what the exported file still says about how it was made.
FAQ
- Is the video uploaded anywhere?
- No. It is read inside your browser, and only partly: the first and last few megabytes, which is where a container keeps its metadata. Nothing is sent to a server, and if the in-browser read ever fails, nothing is uploaded unless you click a button that says so.
- Does it work on large files?
- Yes, and that is the reason for the partial read. A video is often gigabytes and a browser cannot hold one in memory, so the file is examined at both ends rather than loaded. A four-gigabyte recording costs the same as a small one. If something needed turns out to be in the middle of the file, the report says so instead of pretending it read everything.
- What does it show?
- GPS coordinates with a map link, the recording and modification dates, the device make and model, the software that wrote or edited the file, titles and comments, XMP editing history, the track layout, and any timed metadata track — the kind that holds a position per frame.
- What is a location track?
- Some cameras store not one location but a stream of them, sampled several times a second for the whole recording. GoPro writes this as a `gpmd` track, iPhones use `mebx`, and most dashcams do something similar. It is the difference between a file saying where it was shot and a file containing the route you travelled, so it is reported separately with the number of points in it.
- Which formats can it read?
- MP4, M4V, MOV, 3GP, MKV, WebM and AVI. The container is read, not the picture, so no codec has to be supported and a file your player cannot open may still be readable here.
- Why is there no map on the page?
- Because drawing one would send your coordinates away. A map tile or a static map image is fetched from a map provider, and that request carries the position, your IP address and the page you are on — which is exactly what this tool exists to keep local. Instead the result shows a Google Maps link you can click if you want to. Nothing is sent until you do.
- Can it remove what it found?
- Not on this page — use the Remove video metadata tool, which takes the same file. It is a separate tool rather than a checkbox here because removing metadata from a video safely means overwriting parts of the container in place, without moving anything the player depends on, and it does that without re-encoding the recording.