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user962449

Reputation: 3873

preg_match youtube id and remove url

I'm trying to get the youtube video id and replace the url with just the youtube video id. So far I found a way to get the video id, but I can't seem to remove the url.

if (preg_match('%(?:youtube(?:-nocookie)?\.com/(?:[^/]+/.+/|(?:v|e(?:mbed)?)/|.*[?&]v=)|youtu\.be/)([^"&?/ ]{11})%i', $url, $match)) {
    $video_id = $match[1];
}

Examples:

   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 ...

Note that a youtube url can also have extra params after the video id.

Much help is appreciated. Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3327

Answers (2)

Andreas Linden
Andreas Linden

Reputation: 12721

For all your example urls this preg_replace works. Additionally removes any params after the video ID

$videoID =  preg_replace("#[&\?].+$#", "", preg_replace("#http://(?:www\.)?youtu\.?be(?:\.com)?/(embed/|watch\?v=|\?v=|v/|e/|.+/|watch.*v=|)#i", "", $url));

Upvotes: 2

Benjamin Crouzier
Benjamin Crouzier

Reputation: 41865

Try this:

<?php
$url = 'http://www.youtube.com/?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&foo=bar&test=baz';
$path = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH);
$query = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY);
parse_str($query, $args);
echo "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=". $args['v'];

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Upvotes: -1

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