How to embed part of a YouTube Video in website with start and end time

How to embed part of a YouTube video with start and end timeDon’t like to embed a long YouTube video in your website then just embed part of a YouTube video with specific start and end time.  In recent times we shared some cool and useful articles about YouTube and one that is related to this is embedding YouTube videos without YouTube logo. Hope that really helped you and also you can make use of YouTube tips and tricks that will give you better YouTube experience. Here we will see how to embed part of a YouTube video that is embedding YouTube video in your website with specific start and end time.

At sometimes you might embed a lengthy YouTube video in your site and make a note to your site visitors telling them to just watch that specific portion. This is unnecessary and there are few who download the video from YouTube, then edit it, re upload it and then share it in their site which is time consuming. So here we will see how to embed part of a YouTube video with specific start and end time using normal iframe embed.

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How to embed part of a YouTube video with specific start and end time

For example let’s say you want to embed a movie in to your site and you want your visitors to focus on that particular scene. To do so you have to make the video start from x seconds and stop at y seconds. Here you go!

Go to YouTube and find a video that you like to embed in your site and simply grab the iframe embed code. Now your embed code looks like the one below.

How to embed part of a YouTube video with specific start and end time

<iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/dv_gOBi8Wpk?rel=0″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>

To make a video start and end at specific time we are going to add start and end parameter next to ?rel=0 that is &start=xxxx&end=yyyy. So the final embed code should look like this.

<iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/dv_gOBi8Wpk?rel=0& start=xxxx&end=yyyy ” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>

If you checked show related videos at the end then you wont see ?rel=0 at the end of the URL. In that case you have to just add ?start=xxxx&end=yyyy at the end of the URL before quotation mark. It will look like this.

<iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/dv_gOBi8Wpk?start=xxxx&end=yyyy ” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>

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In the above code you can see xxxx and yyyy in which the video will start from x seconds and ends at y seconds. For example if you want to start a video from 05:25 (mm:ss) then simply specify the start time as start=325 (5*60+25 = 325) and do the same for the end parameter.

The final video will look like this.

Chop YouTube videos using TubeChop

How to embed part of a YouTube video in a website with start and end time

TubeChop is an online tool that makes you easy to chop part of the video and embed it in your site. Just enter your YouTube URL, set start time, end time and then grab the embed code and paste it in your site. The main drawback of this tool is that removes YouTube.com and adds tubechop.com in the embed code which is less reliable. Any how the above method is not much complicated and so you can embed part of a YouTube video is your site manually.