YouTube Shorts to Normal Video Link Converter
Paste one or more YouTube links to switch them between the Shorts format and the normal watch format. Opening a Short with a normal link plays it in the regular YouTube player, with a progress bar you can drag, playback speed and the full description.
How do I open a YouTube Short as a normal video?
Every Short has the same kind of video ID as a regular video. Replace /shorts/VIDEO_ID in the link with /watch?v=VIDEO_ID and YouTube opens it in the normal player. Paste the Shorts link above and the converter does this for you; with a single link you can open the result straight away.
Why watch a Short in the normal player?
- Seek bar: jump to any moment instead of watching from the start.
- Playback speed and quality: the normal player's settings menu is available.
- Full description and comments below the video, as with any other video.
- No endless swiping: the video plays on its own page instead of the Shorts feed.
Does converting a link turn a video into a Short?
No. Only the link changes; the video stays exactly what it is. A Short opened with a normal link is still a Short, and if you open a regular video with a Shorts link, YouTube shows it in the normal player anyway.
Can I convert many links at once?
Yes. Paste one link per line, for example a list you collected for a playlist or a spreadsheet. Lines that are not a single video, such as playlist or channel links, are skipped and listed so you can check them.
Which link formats are supported?
Shorts links, normal watch links, youtu.be short links, live links, embed links and links from m.youtube.com or music.youtube.com. Extra parts such as ?si= or &feature=share are removed, so the converted links are clean.
More tools for Shorts
See which tags a Short uses with the Youtube Shorts Tag Extractor, or put a Short on your website with the Youtube Timestamp Link Generator, which also makes embed code.