Get Straight to the Good Stuff, YouTube Enables Deep Linking in Videos
Posted 10/27/08 at 08:00:21 AM by Paul Lilly
We all have that friend or colleague who simply can't resist passing along a link to yet another "hilarious" YouTube video (and if not, well, you might be that friend or colleague). That's okay when it's a quick 30-second videoclip, but does Dan from accounting really expect us to sit through a 12-minute low quality video that doesn't even begin to get good until the 8-minute and 32-second mark?
No longer do we have to, and Dan can link us to a specific spot in any YouTube clip now that the video sharing site has quietly implemented deep linking functionality. To do so, senders need only add a short tag to the end of any YouTube link in the form of #t=_m_s, but instead of underscores, specify the exact minute and seconds (as designated by the 'm' and 's'). So to skip to the 8-minute and 32-second mark, it would read #t=8m32s.
For a more real world example, check out the greatest use of cycle-surfing ever performed in a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8#t=1m44s.
YouTube isn't hyping this new feature, maybe because it's so long overdue, and at least for the time being, users will have to remember the syntax and manually append it to links.

Image Credit: YouTube
HAR!
Submitted by Stockislander on Mon, 10/27/2008 - 11:12am
The new rickroll!
Link doesn't work for me
Submitted by oihorse on Mon, 10/27/2008 - 7:26am
It just takes me to Youtube, not a video, nor 1 minute and 44 seconds into said video.
Thoughts?
Link Fixed
Submitted by One4yu2c on Mon, 10/27/2008 - 7:55am
There was an erroneous space in the hyperlink, which has now been fixed. Thanks for the catch!
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