Tools/Links & utilities

YouTube Video QR Code Generator

Paste a video URL and get the tracking parameters stripped out, leaving the shortest clean link. This does not draw the QR image itself; paste the cleaned link into any QR generator.

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 videoThe two-minute version, the three link shapes that trip people up, and what to do when the transcript panel is missing.