{"id":798,"date":"2008-10-27T13:22:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T19:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iohelix.net\/blog\/?p=798"},"modified":"2008-10-27T13:26:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T19:26:22","slug":"linking-to-specific-moments-in-a-youtube-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/linking-to-specific-moments-in-a-youtube-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Linking to specific moments in a YouTube video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A co-worker of mine pointed me towards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/archives\/018548.html\">this entry<\/a> in a blog.<\/p>\n<p>It talks about linking to a specific time in a YouTube video. I&#8217;ll repeat here in case you don&#8217;t want to link offsite.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever recieved links to videos that say something like &#8220;It gets really good around 1:47&#8221;, or something similar?<\/p>\n<p>Now you can link to a specific moment in that video by putting the time as follows in your link: <code>#t=1m47s<\/code><\/p>\n<p>What this does, is when somebody goes to that link, it not only starts at the given time, but it doesn&#8217;t buffer all the stuff that comes before it, so you don&#8217;t have to wait for the part you&#8217;re interested in.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, try the following link:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OP1-5uxZffE#t=5m45s\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OP1-5uxZffE#t=5m45s<\/a> (<acronym title=\"Safe For Work\">SFW<\/acronym>)<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just awesome.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A co-worker of mine pointed me towards this entry in a blog. It talks about linking to a specific time in a YouTube video. I&#8217;ll repeat here in case you don&#8217;t want to link offsite. Have you ever recieved links to videos that say something like &#8220;It gets really good around 1:47&#8221;, or something similar? &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/linking-to-specific-moments-in-a-youtube-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Linking to specific moments in a YouTube video&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}