2013-09-07 YouTube bookmarklet (for chatango)

About bookmarklets

I recently discovered a new level of usefulness of the concept of bookmarklets for myself.

Bookmarklets are bookmarks, that can perform special functions,
often times acting upon the currently loaded page in some way.
Otherwise they are handled very similar as any other normal bookmarks.

Instead of a http or https url, bookmarklets use references of the pseudo type javascript.
So bookmarklets are basically scripts, that are executed when the user clicks on them.

Apart from not starting to run by themselves, bookmarklets offer about the same possibilities
and suffer about the same restrictions, as other client sided scripts running on or by web pages
currently loaded in the browser.

2013-01-02 Get simple YouTube urls tool

This is a tool to create the most basic/simple form of a url showing a YouTube video
and/or an even shorter youtu.be url to that video:

input url (paste or enter here...):


simple url (copy from here):


youtu.be url (copy from here):

Sometimes, you may want to share a YouTube video (url) with others,
but the url you acquired is much longer and more complicated than it needs to be
- because it contains extra parameters and data not required
and not appropriate to use for the one[s] you want to share it with.

This overcomplicated form also causes problems in some cases,
f.e. with tools that help you embed such videos.