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Extract the YouTube Video ID from a URL in PHP
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| <?php | |
| // Here is a sample of the URLs this regex matches: (there can be more content after the given URL that will be ignored) | |
| // http://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ | |
| // http://www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ | |
| // http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ | |
| // http://www.youtube.com/?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ | |
| // http://www.youtube.com/v/dQw4w9WgXcQ | |
| // http://www.youtube.com/e/dQw4w9WgXcQ | |
| // http://www.youtube.com/user/username#p/u/11/dQw4w9WgXcQ | |
| // http://www.youtube.com/sandalsResorts#p/c/54B8C800269D7C1B/0/dQw4w9WgXcQ | |
| // http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dQw4w9WgXcQ | |
| // http://www.youtube.com/?feature=player_embedded&v=dQw4w9WgXcQ | |
| // It also works on the youtube-nocookie.com URL with the same above options. | |
| // It will also pull the ID from the URL in an embed code (both iframe and object tags) | |
| preg_match('%(?:youtube(?:-nocookie)?\.com/(?:[^/]+/.+/|(?:v|e(?:mbed)?)/|.*[?&]v=)|youtu\.be/)([^"&?/ ]{11})%i', $url, $match); | |
| $youtube_id = $match[1]; | |
| ?> |
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I visited the YouTube URL in your code sample hoping for a very specific video, and I was not disappointed.