Tools/Links & utilities

YouTube Video QR Code Generator

Paste a video URL and get the tracking parameters stripped out, leaving the shortest clean link. Paste that link into any QR generator to make the code.

Input

Video URL

This prepares the shortest, cleanest link for a QR code. It does not draw the QR image itself.

Clean link

https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

Cleanest URL for a QR code

https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

Original length

65 characters

Clean length

28 characters

Removed

1 tracking parameter(s)

This does not render a QR image. Paste the link above into any QR generator. Shorter links need fewer modules, which makes the resulting code simpler and faster to scan from a distance.

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What this does

Paste a video URL and we strip tracking parameters like si, feature, and utm codes, leaving the shortest clean link. A shorter link needs fewer modules in a QR code, which makes it simpler and faster to scan from a distance.

This tool does not draw the QR image itself. Paste the cleaned link into any QR generator to get the actual code.

Use cases

01Clean a link copied straight from the YouTube share button before it goes on a poster or an end screen.
02Make a QR code that scans reliably from further away by shortening the underlying link first.
03Strip tracking parameters you don't want printed into a physical QR code.

Glossary

Description timestamps YouTube chapters

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Does this generate an actual QR code image?

No. It prepares the cleanest possible URL. Paste that into a QR code generator to get the image.

Do I need an account?

No.

Will this work on non-YouTube links too?

Yes, for generic tracking parameters, though YouTube links get the full clean-up down to a youtu.be shortlink.

From the notebook

How YouTube captions actually workWhere timed text lives, what a cue really contains, how the official Captions API differs from the public player track, and why cleanup is the whole job.How to get a transcript from a YouTube videoWhere Show transcript sits on a computer and in the app, how to copy or print the text, and what to do when a video has no transcript button at all.