# Url to open overlay player? **URL:** \ **Category:** Create\ **Created:** [September 13, 2019, 1:54am UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/url-to-open-overlay-player/1101 "2019-09-13T01:54:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![frank](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/frank/32/247_2.png) [@frank](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/frank)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 1:54am UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/url-to-open-overlay-player/1101/1 "2019-09-13T01:54:12Z")
Is there a way to get a url that opens the overlay player for a version directly when clicked? ---
**Author:** ![brandon.foster](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/brandon.foster/32/91_2.png) [@brandon.foster](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/brandon.foster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 1:29pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/url-to-open-overlay-player/1101/2 "2019-09-13T13:29:50Z")
Hi Frank! There’s actually a way to do this, but you run into a bug when you do. If you use this style of URL you can open up a Version directly in the Overlay Player in the Media app: `https://yoursite.shotgunstudio.com/page/media_center?type=Version&id=6588` Replace your Version ID and you’re off to the races. However after navigating to that URL, whenever you open the Media app in the future you run into the bug where it’ll always load up that Version :-/. > [@That persistant video that always opens over the Media page](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/that-persistant-video-that-always-opens-over-the-media-page/926): > > I’ve experienced this in multiple versions of Shotgun at different studios, just wondering if there’s a way of overcoming it. Someone will share a link to a video from the media page via an external method (i.e. Slack), you’ll click the link, video will play in Shotgun. But every time you return to the media page on Shotgun via media button it will play this shared video. Meaning you to have to shut down the video before you can get to the media page. The only I can find to get rid of the video… ---
**Author:** ![frank](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/frank/32/247_2.png) [@frank](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/frank)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 2:58am UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/url-to-open-overlay-player/1101/3 "2019-09-14T02:58:50Z")
Thanks Brandon, sounds like I’d better stay away from it for now then. It’d be really nice to have a button in Shotgun that would copy an overlay player url, so I guess that’s a feature request alongside a bug fix?! Cheers, frank ---
**Author:** ![brandon.foster](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/brandon.foster/32/91_2.png) [@brandon.foster](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/brandon.foster)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 1:32pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/url-to-open-overlay-player/1101/4 "2019-09-16T13:32:10Z")
![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/original/1X/ba287f2110b9499200ec1c758c17e5f9d5fb928c.jpeg) When using the Overlay Player within the media app, click the gear icon \> Copy Internal Version Link: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/original/1X/7c96fe6d58648af0e977b368742b9366f45eca2f.png) \*This is, however, subject to the same aforementioned bug we’ll need to fix first. ---
**Author:** ![frank](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/frank/32/247_2.png) [@frank](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/frank)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 9:13pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/url-to-open-overlay-player/1101/5 "2019-09-16T21:13:27Z")
![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/original/1X/df66e17a92fb4c22b662c2f18624d3afee5fb136.gif) Hmmm, the plot thickens. Why is this option only available when using the media app? This is another part where Shotgun is quite inconsistent which is super confusing for me let alone people that are new to it. I will try and use the media app more, but until that bug is fixed I guess there is little point in using the url, as it will create further confusion. ---
**Author:** ![grover\_gol](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/grover_gol/32/2436_2.png) [@grover\_gol](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/grover_gol)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 12:37pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/url-to-open-overlay-player/1101/6 "2023-07-27T12:37:40Z")
Thanks, man. Super useful!