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Tutorial: Embedding only Part of a YouTube Clip

Thu, 09/16/2010 - 5:30am — Mark Vergeer

If you only want to embed a specific part of a YouTube Video say starting somewhere halfway then you are up for some HTML code editing as YouTube itself doesn't provide that feature in the website interface.

So how to go about it? YouTube's embedded player has a parameter allowing you to skip a video any number of seconds you define. You enter the following code &start=[number of seconds from the start of the video] to both parts found in the standard embedding code YouTube creates. Read more below on how to do this.

This is how the regular embedding code for this particular video looks:

Now say you want to embed this video skipping the first 20 seconds you add &start=20 to the code in both URL parts:

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