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YouTube video ID regex
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gistfile1.rb
# Parses YouTube URLs directly or from iframe code. Handles:
# * Address bar on YouTube url (ex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFqlHhCNBOI)
# * Direct http://youtu.be/ url (ex: http://youtu.be/ZFqlHhCNBOI)
# * Full iframe embed code (ex: <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZFqlHhCNBOI">)
# * Old <object> tag embed code (ex: <object><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZFqlHhCNBOI">...)
/(youtu\.be\/|youtube\.com\/(watch\?(.*&)?v=|(embed|v)\/))([^\?&"'>]+)/
$5 #=> the video ID
# test it on Rubular: http://rubular.com/r/eaJeSMkJvo
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