Link to Starts At using URL parameters
You can link to Starts At without using our form and instead using parameters in the URL. This is handy if you want to programatically include Starts At links many times throughout a website. The following features, however, are not available using this method: event description, event URL, add to calendar, recurring dates, and custom image.
Parameter values must be URL encoded. In our documentation, however, we show both unencoded and encoded values for clarity.
These examples show the many ways you can link to Starts At.
iso
for ISO 8601https://www.starts-at.com/e/?iso=2021-04-05T12:30-02:00 https://www.starts-at.com/e/?iso=2021-04-05T12%3A30-02%3A00 https://www.starts-at.com/e/?iso=2009-01-01T12:00+01:00 https://www.starts-at.com/e/?iso=2009-01-01T12%3A00%2B01%3A00
Your development tools probably support this format. XKCD said it best.
title
https://www.starts-at.com/e/?iso=20210305T0130&title=My Great Event https://www.starts-at.com/e/?iso=20210305T0130&title=My%20Great%20Event
This sets the name of the event at the top of the page. You can also set this using msg
instead of title
.
t
onlyhttps://www.starts-at.com/e/?t=August 13 2020 at 11am PDT https://www.starts-at.com/e/?t=August%2013%202020%20at%2011am%20PDT https://www.starts-at.com/e/?t=Today at 9pm EST https://www.starts-at.com/e/?t=Today%20at%209pm%20EST
Starts At will take its best guess handling a range of time formats. Note: this method will always display the event's local time in UTC.
t
, d
, and tz
https://www.starts-at.com/e/?t=15:00&tz=Honolulu-Hawaii&d=2022-05-01 https://www.starts-at.com/e/?t=15%3A00&tz=Honolulu-Hawaii&d=2022-05-01
The tz
parameter can be the long name of any timezone from the dropdown menu on Starts At.
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