YouTube timestamp link generator.

Add a t parameter to the video's address: youtu.be/VIDEOID?t=95 opens the video at 95 seconds. This tool does the arithmetic for you: paste the link, type the time as hours, minutes and seconds, and copy the result. YouTube itself offers the same thing through Share and the 'Start at' checkbox; the tool version is faster when you already have the link and quicker for times you want to type rather than scrub to.

They open the same video at the same moment. The youtu.be form is compact and pastes cleanly into chats; the youtube.com/watch form is the address bar version, and some older embeds and tools expect it. We generate both so you can use whichever the destination prefers.

Paste a Shorts link and the tool reads the video id from it, then produces standard watch links with your start time. Note that the Shorts player itself ignores start times; the generated link opens the video in the normal player, which honors them.

The tool notices the existing t value, loads it into the hour, minute and second fields, and you can adjust from there. Handy when someone sends you a link at 12:04 and the good part is really at 12:31.

Inside YouTube comments you do not need a URL at all: type the time as plain text, like 2:35, and YouTube turns it into a clickable jump automatically. The links from this tool are for everywhere else: chats, documents, forums, social posts.

The YouTube app's Share button does not offer a start-at option the way the desktop site does. The workaround is exactly what this tool is for: share the video from the app, paste the link here, type the time, and copy the result. This page works in any phone browser, so the whole round trip takes a few seconds.

The usual causes: the time was written after a # instead of a ?, the parameter got dropped by a link shortener, or the app you pasted into stripped query strings. Copy from the tool output directly and test the link once yourself before sharing.

No. The tool never contacts YouTube; it just rewrites the address text in your browser. Which videos you link and where you send them stays entirely with you.