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scientiffic
scientiffic

Reputation: 9415

Rails: Take embed code and get video URL

is there a rails library for taking embed code and returning the url of the video?

for example, if I pass the following:

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/J---aiyznGQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

it will return 

www.youtube.com/embed/J---aiyznGQ

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1280

Answers (2)

zeantsoi
zeantsoi

Reputation: 26193

Consider the following:

embed_code = '<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/J---aiyznGQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>'
regex = /(youtu\.be\/|youtube\.com\/(watch\?(.*&)?v=|(embed|v)\/))([^\?&"'>]+)/

youtube_id = embed_code.match(regex)[5]

'www.youtube.com/embed/' + youtube_id 
#=> www.youtube.com/embed/J---aiyznGQ

Upvotes: 1

Dipil
Dipil

Reputation: 2708

You can get the video id using a regular expression and then use that to generate the url.

Here is a good link for the regex: https://gist.github.com/afeld/1254889

Upvotes: 1

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