The Code Train » youtube http://thecodetrain.co.uk Where Neil Crosby talks about coding on the train... Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:15:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Deep Linking into YouTube Videos http://thecodetrain.co.uk/2010/01/deep-linking-into-youtube-videos/ http://thecodetrain.co.uk/2010/01/deep-linking-into-youtube-videos/#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:08:48 +0000 Neil Crosby http://thecodetrain.co.uk/?p=352 Just a very quick post today to highlight something I only became aware of a couple of days ago because of Jake Archibald, when he posted a youtube link on an internal mailing list – it’s possible to deep link into an arbitrary point within YouTube videos.

I had thought that this was something most other interested people would have known about already, and that I was slow on the uptake as usual, but it turns out that when I mentioned this to Adriano Castro today he wasn’t aware. So, I present to you a method for deep linking into YouTube videos.

  1. Take one YouTube URL.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ust9YBlEfY

  2. Watch it, and find a place within it that you’d like to link to.

    In this instance, I want to link 28 seconds in.

  3. Add a fragment to the URL with the format #t=minutesmseconds

    In this instance, the URL would become:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ust9YBlEfY#t=0m28

  4. That’s all there is to it. Simples.

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]]> Just a very quick post today to highlight something I only became aware of a couple of days ago because of Jake Archibald, when he posted a youtube link on an internal mailing list – it’s possible to deep link into an arbitrary point within YouTube videos.

I had thought that this was something most other interested people would have known about already, and that I was slow on the uptake as usual, but it turns out that when I mentioned this to Adriano Castro today he wasn’t aware. So, I present to you a method for deep linking into YouTube videos.

  1. Take one YouTube URL.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ust9YBlEfY

  2. Watch it, and find a place within it that you’d like to link to.

    In this instance, I want to link 28 seconds in.

  3. Add a fragment to the URL with the format #t=minutesmseconds

    In this instance, the URL would become:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ust9YBlEfY#t=0m28

  4. That’s all there is to it. Simples.

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