Reminder to self: write a Bookmarklet that shortens YouTube URLs to the youtu.be ones
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/02
When sharing YouTube videos via the mobile apps, they are shortened using the youtu.be domain.
So this is a reminder to write a Bookmarklet based URL-shortener myself for this and extend it so it also understands the various YouTube URL parameters (like start time).
The transformation is documented:
- [Wayback/Archive] YouTube Gets Its Own Short URLs. Except They’re Still Pretty Long. | TechCrunch
To use youtu.be manually, simply take a URL like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdeioVndUhsand replace the “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=” with “http://youtu.be/” to get:http://youtu.be/FdeioVndUhsPlug that shorter URL into a browser, and you’ll see it redirects to that video. - [Wayback/Archive] Make Way for youtu.be Links has the same information
Via:
- [Wayback/Archive] shorten url to use “youtu.be” – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] “youtu.be” – Google Search
–jeroen






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