How to get YouTube and SoundCloud standalone players with just a single URL

posted Jul 30, 2014, 11:18 PM by James Wu [ updated Jul 30, 2014, 11:20 PM ]

I find it fascinating how this simple piece of information is relatively hidden on the web.

▪ The standard YouTube video url looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrD4SAIJrg8

▪ Now here's the short url: youtu.be/BrD4SAIJrg8

▪ And the standalone player: https://www.youtube.com/v/BrD4SAIJrg8 Now you can put this into any iframe and the video will stretch to fit it.

▪ Let's add start and end times: https://www.youtube.com/v/BrD4SAIJrg8?start=956&end=1272&version=3 Start and end times are in seconds.

So then I thought, maybe I can do the same thing with SoundCloud. I was right, but I had to get the ID of the track I wanted by clicking Share -> Embed and dissecting the generated embed code.

https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/160949230&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false

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