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Extract Youtube Video ID from URL

02.10.2013

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    /* Source : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3452546/javascript-regex-how-to-get-youtube-video-id-from-url  */
     
    var regExp = /^.*(youtu.be\/|v\/|u\/\w\/|embed\/|watch\?v=)([^#\&\?]*).*/;
    var match = url.match(regExp);
    if (match&&match[2].length==11){
        return match[2];
    }else{
        //error
    }

This snippets show how to extract the video id of a youtube video from its URL

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