Paste a URL, dial the exact second, and copy a link that drops viewers right at the moment you want.
When you’d timestamp a link
Timestamped links are how creators answer support questions ("watch from 2:14 for the install step"), how marketing pages embed proof moments from a longer interview, and how creators inside a community can point each other at a specific reaction or stat without making everyone scrub through the whole video. The friction without this tool is just hoping you typed the seconds right.
Where it fits
Chapters in your video description and pinned-comment timestamps are part of the same UX pattern: showing viewers exactly where the value is. Combined with a thumbnail that promises a specific moment ("the part where everything goes wrong"), timestamped links keep retention high by letting viewers self-serve to the payoff.
FAQ
Both work for timestamped links. youtu.be is YouTube’s official short domain and produces cleaner-looking URLs. youtube.com/watch is more familiar to viewers. The tool generates both so you can pick whichever fits the context.
Regular share links use ?t=NmSs (or just ?t=Nseconds). Embedded iframes use ?start=Nseconds — different parameter names. If you’re embedding rather than sharing, you need the embed code generator, not this one.
YouTube’s regular share links only support a start time. The watch page ignores any end-time parameter. If you need start + end, you have to embed the video and pass start + end on the iframe URL instead.
Yes. YouTube’s mobile apps respect ?t= timestamps from share links — the video opens, jumps to the exact second, and starts playing.
When a timestamp isn't enough
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