YouTube Link Viewer
Know where a link goes before you open it. We identify the video, playlist, channel and timestamp inside any YouTube URL and give you clean canonical versions.
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Frequently asked questions
Whether a link points to a video, playlist, channel or several at once, the IDs inside it, the start time, and clean canonical versions of every link.
No. It reads the URL, and when the YouTube API is available checks the title and privacy, so you know what a link is before visiting it.
No. Parsing works without one. Titles and availability checks are added when the YouTube API is available.
Watch links, youtu.be short links, Shorts, embeds, live links, playlists, channel URLs, @handles and bare IDs.
No. Every tool is free and needs no account. Nothing you paste is stored: the request is processed and the result is sent back to your browser.