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YouTube – Links and URL info

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Giving out YouTube links is probably something everyone does, here is a small guide to all of the info that can be added to a YouTube URL:

Basically, YouTube video pages are coded with special ‘arguments’ or ‘parameters’ to show what is specified in the URL. The main argument would be ‘v‘; the unique code for each video (the bunch of letters/numbers at the end), that tells it to view the video you’re looking for.
let’s use an example link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

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