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Python 3 Script to Generate YouTube Video Timestamp URL From Time Input in Terminal
Jun 3, 2025
Get the full source code of application here:
https://codingshiksha.com/python/python-3-script-to-generate-youtube-timestamp-url-from-time-input-in-terminal/
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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so in this video I will show you how to
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build this application uh YouTube video
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timestamp generator so whenever you are
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watching any sort of YouTube
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video so if you want to specifically
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jump on a particular section you don't
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need to uh you don't have the time to
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watch the entire video then this
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application comes into the picture you
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input the URL and the minutes and the
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second uh let me show you an example
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uh let me open my any video right here
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let me just type the channel
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name let me take this video for example
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so I built this tool in my website here
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freemediatools.com this is my own
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website which contains thousands of
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tools so you input actually the time
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period at which you need to so I need to
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go to this time period 2
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minute 3 second so it will actually
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construct this timestamp so when someone
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clicks on this they will redirect to
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that specific portion in the video so
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this actually saves a lot of time
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because they don't want to watch the
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entire video so this timestamp link will
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automatically redirect the user to that
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particular location so in this way I
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will show you a Python script which will
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actually do this process so for this I
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have given this uh script in the
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description of this video so now I will
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show you how to do this so first of
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all you just create a simple app py file
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and then for this you need URL lib
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library which is a built-in library
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inside Python and from this you need to
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import URL
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parse parse QS
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URL encode as
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well URL encode and also URL unparse all
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these packages we need to import and
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after that we will define a function
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which will generate the YouTube timeline
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URL timestamp URL so here we will
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specify which YouTube video you are
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talking about so simply let me take this
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example i copy this URL and paste
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it and then here you need to submit the
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time
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input at what particular location so I
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will
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say so here this will be the time period
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of the video 1 minute 23
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second and using this time we will
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construct the timestamp URL for this we
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will construct this function which is
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generate timestamp URL here we simply
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pass the video URL and the actual time
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input as two arguments so now we just
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need to define this function which is
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generate and now inside this function we
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actually first of all check in this if
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condition that
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uh if the time stamp that is
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passed so here we specifically check
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here this is your time input let me call
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this as time stamp
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so now the very first thing we are doing
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we are checking that if the time period
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that is passed is actually a string or
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not and then we extract the the time
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period by using this simple logic
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so we actually extract
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everything like this the actual time
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period that you
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pass so like this we have so we are
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actually extracting this 1 minute 23
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second we are converting this to second
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which comes out to be 83
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second so this is actually the logic
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here
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after that we get the parsed time here
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now we use the URL parse and parse the
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video
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URL and then use this to actually parse
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the
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query and then we use query
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t this is little bit complicated but you
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just need to write whatever I'm writing
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and then we construct the timestamp
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video URL based upon the time
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period use this so we get this timestamp
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URL so we just need to return this from
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this function so we'll simply say return
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new URL that's all uh if you run this
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Python script now let me run
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this so you just need to print this out
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so I simply say print original URL and
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then the timestamp URL
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so go to the terminal and just execute
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this you will see this is your original
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URL and this is your timestamped
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URL so it has converted to seconds here
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which is 83 so we specified this 1
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minute 23 seconds so it actually
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converted them into a timestamp URL so
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you can copy this URL and simply paste
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it inside the browser so now what
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happens it redirects you to the 83
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second directly in the video so this
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actually saves a lot of time you don't
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need to watch the entire video you can
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create these timestamps inside your
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video descriptions to allow user to
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quickly navigate to the directly to that
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timestamp so this was the script the
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full script is given in the description
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of this video and also check out my
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website free media tools.com and please
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hit that like button and also comment on
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this video as well