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Watch the step-by-step walkthrough below, then follow along to grab the unique video ID of any YouTube video straight from its URL.
Follow these steps alongside the video to locate any YouTube video's unique ID.
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Common questions about finding a YouTube video ID.
A YouTube video ID is the unique 11-character code that identifies a specific video. It appears after v= in a standard YouTube URL, for example the K7JSenLDgQ0 in youtube.com/watch?v=K7JSenLDgQ0.
Open the video and look at your browser's address bar. The ID is the string immediately after v= and before any & symbol. If there are extra parameters like &t=1s, the ID is only the part before that ampersand.
On a shortened youtu.be link, the ID comes right after the slash — for example, in youtu.be/K7JSenLDgQ0 the ID is K7JSenLDgQ0. Again, ignore anything after a ? such as a timestamp.
Tap Share under the video and choose Copy link. Paste it anywhere and you'll get a youtu.be link — the characters after the slash are the video ID.
The ID is used to embed videos on websites, pull a video's thumbnail (e.g. img.youtube.com/vi/ID/maxresdefault.jpg), reference videos in the YouTube API, and build clean links. It's the most reliable way to point to one exact video.
No. The video ID identifies a single video, while a channel ID identifies the creator's whole channel. They're different codes found in different parts of the URL — the video ID after v=, and the channel ID after /channel/.
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