How To shorten Youtube Video url links

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URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web where a provider makes a web page available under a very short URL in addition to the original address. Facebook and Google is launching respective URL shortening services, YouTube has also jumped for the same. Youtu.be is the URL slug to be used for shortened Youtube video URLs.

Just like Google’s URL shortened goo.gl is specially for Google services, Youtube’s URL youtu.be is specially for sharing Youtube video links on social media. Procedure to generate such shortened youtu.be links isn’t easy.

It’s all the rage: link shorteners to ensure that those useful URLs you’re sharing don’t take up too much precious character count while also giving you an inkling of what you’re about to click on. Well, Youtube have just launched youtu.be as a shortened for YouTube video links — and nothing but YouTube links — so you can rest assured that when you see a link with this URL, you are indeed about to click on a YouTube video. (Also, because the link contains the ID of the video you’re going to see, developers can do interesting things like show you thumbnails, embed the video directly, or track how a video is spreading in real-time.)

Make shortened Youtube links with youtu.be  :

You need to grab Youtube video ID from original video URL and add it after youtu.be slug. For example:

- Actual Youtube URL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdeioVndUhs
- Shortened Youtube URL

youtu.be/FdeioVndUhs

Little messy, still useful enough for web sharing of Youtube video links in smaller URL format .