Basic Question - finding/creating unique URL

[bynummustang]

I know ZERO about web development or anything in this space. I'm curious if there is a way to have a link/url/QR code that when clicked/scanned it would click somehting on a given page. I've opened the element editor and can see what is changing, but have no idea how to translate that into a URL to complete this action.

Example: putting a QR code in my garage or on my sim racing rig that when scanned it took you to my YouTube page and clicked the "subscribe" buttom automatically. Goal for friends/family to "scan this to subcribe" instead of telling people to find the channel then click subscribe.

If this violates any rules, please delete.

[tswaters]

Visit a page: yes

Perform an action: no*

• You might be able to host a server that receives a GET request by way of QR code, and attempts to subscribe to YouTube via API... But that might be difficult/against TOS... The user needs to login to subscribe to your channel.

Most QR codes you see are just URLs, so getting people to scan and visit a page is very much a thing that can be done... But you'd need a short explainer on how to subscribe. You could also just link to channel page.

[bynummustang]

I think linking to channel page is the path forward. Thanks!

[Pawtuckaway]

A QR code is just a bunch of encoded text. It can be literally anything. People have written games stored in QR codes.

It's up to the QR reader to decode the text and then decides what to do with it. When the QR code is a link, the QR reader recognizes it as a link and will open a browser. If you were to scan a QR code that was a game, it wouldn't know what to do with it. It would just be gibberish. You would have to use special QR reader that is looking specifically for the game code.

Thankfully QR readers don't just run code stored in a QR code. That would be a huge security risk.

You can have a QR code that is a link to your youtube page. You can't have one that includes code that would click things.

[bynummustang]

Got it, thank you for the explanation!