Easy YouTube Navigation URLs

By Harry Bellamy

- 1 minutes read - 140 words

In addition to coding and writing this blog, I occasionally play guitar. For learning songs, I often use YouTube. Often there is the need to repeat passages, which can be difficult to do navigating to the same section over and over again.

A trick I’ve used is to change the YouTube URL to navigate to just before the section in question by appending &t=<time in seconds>s to the URL.

For example, the below link takes us to just before the solo portion of Bon Jovi’s Dead or Alive (sorry):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRvCvsRp5ho&t=140s

If I want to repeat the passage I can just hit F5 to refresh the page rather than navigating manually.

The suffix s indicates that the number supplied is the offset in seconds. For longer videos, the suffixes m and h will translate to offsets of minutes and hours respectively.