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YouTube ID ExtractorVideo, channel, or playlist - clean ID out
Paste any YouTube link and get the exact Video ID, Channel ID, Playlist ID, or handle - ready to paste into an API, spreadsheet, or automation tool.
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What this tool recognises
Paste in a youtube.com/watch?v=… link, a youtu.be/… short link, a /shorts/ or /live/ URL, a /playlist?list=… link, or a channel link in any of its forms - /channel/UC…, /@handle, or the older /c/name and /user/name formats. The tool detects which one you gave it and returns only the ID, with nothing extra to trim off.
Common uses
Pulling a clean ID is usually the first step before feeding a link into a spreadsheet formula, a no-code automation (Zapier, Make, n8n), a custom embed, or any API call that expects a bare ID rather than a full URL.
Questions
Frequently asked
It's the 11-character code YouTube uses to identify a video internally - the part after ?v= in a watch URL, or the code right after youtu.be/. This tool pulls it out automatically from any link shape.
Yes, along with watch?v=, /shorts/, /live/, /embed/, /playlist?list=, /channel/, /@handle, and legacy /c/ or /user/ links.
A Channel ID always starts with "UC" and never changes. A handle (like @mkbhd) is the human-readable name a channel picked and can be changed later - this tool detects and returns whichever one your link actually contains.
Raw IDs are what most APIs, embed codes, and no-code automation tools (Zapier, Make, Sheets) expect as input, rather than a full URL.
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