Free YouTube URL Cleaner

YouTube links shared from apps arrive stuffed with tracking parameters like ?si=, feature=shared, and app identifiers that make them long and ugly. This cleaner strips the junk and normalizes every link to its canonical form — a tidy youtube.com/watch?v=… URL, or a proper /shorts/ link for Shorts. Paste a batch, get clean links back, ready to share or archive.

Tracking parameters are removed; start times (?t=) are preserved.
Private by design. This tool runs 100% in your browser — nothing is uploaded to any server.

How to Use the YouTube URL Cleaner

  1. Paste messy YouTube links — with ?si=, feature= or other tracking bits — one per line.
  2. Click Clean URLs to normalize each to its canonical watch, Shorts or playlist URL.
  3. Copy the cleaned links individually or all at once. Start times are kept when present.

Features

Removes si, feature, app, and other tracking parameters from watch, youtu.be, Shorts, embed, and live links. Shorts stay as canonical /shorts/ URLs, playlist links normalize to /playlist?list=…, and start times (?t=) are preserved when present.

Benefits & Use Cases

Clean links look more trustworthy in messages, emails, and documents, and they will not leak how or where the link was shared. Archivists and researchers also get consistent URLs that are easier to deduplicate.

Tips

A start time like &t=90s is kept because it is part of the content, not tracking. If you share Shorts often, the dedicated Shorts URL converter produces the same canonical format for single links.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the YouTube URL cleaner remove?

It removes tracking and app parameters such as si, feature, app, and similar extras, leaving only the video identifier and any start time.

Does it change Shorts links into watch links?

No. Links that point to Shorts are normalized to the canonical youtube.com/shorts/VIDEO_ID format instead.

Are start times preserved?

Yes. If your link includes a start time (?t= or start=), it is carried over to the cleaned URL.

Can I clean multiple URLs at once?

Yes — paste one URL per line and clean the whole batch, then copy the results individually or all together.

Does cleaning a URL break the video?

No. The cleaned URL points to the exact same video; only the tracking extras are removed.

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