About the YouTube Looper
Learning a guitar riff, a dance step or a phrase in another language means hearing the same twenty seconds many times over. Dragging the progress bar back by hand ruins the rhythm of practice, so this page builds a player that returns to your start point on its own. Give it a link, a start time and an end time and it works out the rest.
The video id is pulled from any of the shapes YouTube uses: a full watch address, a youtu.be short link, an /embed/ or /shorts/ path, or the bare eleven character id on its own. A t=95s already in the link becomes the default start, so copying with the share dialogue open at the right moment saves a step. Times accept several notations, so 90, 1:30 and 1m30s all mean the same thing.
Looping a single video uses the documented pairing of loop=1 with a playlist value equal to the video id, alongside start and end in seconds. The player is only fetched when you press the load button, so opening the page contacts nobody, and the privacy domain option serves the frame from youtube-nocookie.com. The embed code is on the clipboard whenever you press Copy, ready for a lesson page of your own. For timing the section itself, the duration formatter converts between seconds and minutes.
How to use
- Paste the video address, or just the eleven character id.
- Type the Loop from and Loop to times, using 1:30 or 90 or 1m30s.
- Press Load the looping player to bring the frame in.
- Press Copy to take the embed code away for your own page.
Common questions
- Why does the player only appear after I press a button?
- So the page can be opened without contacting YouTube at all. The frame is created on your click, which also keeps the tool fast on a slow connection.
- Can I loop a section of a private video?
- Only if you can already watch it. The tool builds an address, and any age, region or privacy restriction on the video still applies.
- Does an advert interrupt the loop?
- It can. YouTube may show an advert before the first play, after which the section repeats normally.
- What does the privacy domain option change?
- It serves the player from youtube-nocookie.com, which holds back personalised cookies until playback actually starts.