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jrom
jrom

Reputation: 1960

Regular expression for youtube links

Does someone have a regular expression that gets a link to a Youtube video (not embedded object) from (almost) all the possible ways of linking to Youtube?

I think this is a pretty common problem and I'm sure there are a lot of ways to link that.

A starting point would be:

Upvotes: 48

Views: 70850

Answers (21)

Kaligula
Kaligula

Reputation: 39

If you'd like to cover all YouTube URL variants try this:

^(?:(?:https?:)?\/\/)?(?:(?:(?:www|m(?:usic)?)\.)?youtu(?:\.be|be\.com)\/(?:shorts\/|live\/|v\/|e(?:mbed)?\/|watch(?:\/|\?(?:\S+=\S+&)*v=)|oembed\?url=https?%3A\/\/(?:www|m(?:usic)?)\.youtube\.com\/watch\?(?:\S+=\S+&)*v%3D|attribution_link\?(?:\S+=\S+&)*u=(?:\/|%2F)watch(?:\?|%3F)v(?:=|%3D))?|www\.youtube-nocookie\.com\/embed\/)([\w-]{11})[\?&#]?\S*$

It's a RegExp from a related question for any known YouTube URL (also music.*, shorts/, live/, e/ embed/, v/, *-nocookie etc.). Also catches video ID.

If you want you can restrict the video ID further with Glenn's answer instead of ([\w-]{11}).

Upvotes: 0

user6365858
user6365858

Reputation:

I like @brunodles's solution the most but you can still match non video links like https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions

I went with this solution

(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?youtu(?:\.be\/|be.com\/\S*(?:watch|embed)(?:(?:(?=\/[-a-zA-Z0-9_]{11,}(?!\S))\/)|(?:\S*v=|v\/)))([-a-zA-Z0-9_]{11,})

It can also be used to match multiple whitespace separated links. The video id will be captured in the first group.

Tested with the following urls:

youtu.be/iwGFalTRHDA
youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoBL33GT9S8&feature=share
https://www.youtube.com/embed/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iwGFalTRHDA
https://www.youtube.com/embed/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA
https://www.youtube.com/embed/v=iwGFalTRHDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch/iwGFalTRHDA
http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?u=/watch?v=aGmiw_rrNxk&feature=share
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA

// will not match
https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgc00bfF_PvO_2AvqJZHXFg
https://www.youtube.com/c/NatGeoEdOrg/videos

https://regex101.com/r/rq2KLv/1

Upvotes: 10

brunodles
brunodles

Reputation: 943

You can use this expression below.

(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?youtu\.?be(?:\.com)?\/?.*(?:watch|embed)?(?:.*v=|v\/|\/)([\w\-_]+)\&?

I'm using it, and it cover the most used URLs. I'll keep updating it on This Gist. You can test it on this tool.

Upvotes: 21

Misha latushko
Misha latushko

Reputation: 1

(?-s)^https?\W+(?:www\.|m\.|music\.)*youtu\.?be(?:\.com|\/watch|\/o?embed|\/shorts|\/attribution_link\?[&\w\-=]*[au]=|\/ytsc\w+|[\?&\/]+[ve]i?\b|\?feature=\w+|-nocookie)*[\/=]([a-z\d\-_]{11})[\?&#% \t ] *.*$

or

(?-s)^(?:(?!https?[:\/]|www\.|m\.yo|music\.yo|youtu\.?be[\/\.]|watch[\/\?]|embed\/)\V)*(?:https?[:\/]+|www\.|m\.|music\.)+youtu\.?be(?:\.com\/|watch|o?embed(?:\/|\?url=\S+?)?|shorts|attribution_link\?[&\w\-=]*[au]=\/?|ytsc\w+|[\?&]*[ve]i?\b|\?feature=\w+|[\?&]time_continue=\d+|-nocookie|%[23][56FD])*(?:[\/=]|%2F|%3D)([a-z\d\-_]{11})[\?&#% \t ]? *.*$

(the part >>#% \t⠀　]<< should contain continuous space, which is Alt+255, but stackoverflow-com can't print it) (this string may be replaced to \1, sorted and abbreviated with: )

V█(?-i)^([A-Za-z\d\-_]{11})(?:\v+\1)*$
>█https:\/\/youtu\.be\/\1

(./dot can take up any symbol; \V or [^\r\n] can any except special, emoji and others; this >> [^!-⠀：／‽｜\s] << can grab some emoji)

https://youtu.be/x26ANNC3C-8 • ♾ 𝕳𝕰𝕽𝕰𝕿𝕳𝕰𝖄𝕮𝕺𝕸𝕰 - 𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔪𝔢 𝔞𝔩𝔬𝔫𝔢 • 7:15

Upvotes: 0

user13366325
user13366325

Reputation:

With this Javascript Regex, the first capture is a video ID :

^(?:https?:)?(?:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?(?:youtu\.be\/|youtube(?:\-nocookie)?\.(?:[A-Za-z]{2,4}|[A-Za-z]{2,3}\.[A-Za-z]{2})\/)(?:watch|embed\/|vi?\/)*(?:\?[\w=&]*vi?=)?([^#&\?\/]{11}).*$

Upvotes: 0

Sai Rushi P
Sai Rushi P

Reputation: 1

    var isValidYoutubeLink: Bool{
        // working for all the youtube url's
        NSPredicate(format: "SELF MATCHES %@", "(?:http?s?:\\/\\/)?(?:www.)?(?:m.)?(?:music.)?youtu(?:\\.?be)(?:\\.com)?(?:(?:\\w*.?:\\/\\/)?\\w*.?\\w*-?.?\\w*\\/(?:embed|e|v|watch|.*\\/)?\\??(?:feature=\\w*\\.?\\w*)?&?(?:v=)?\\/?)([\\w\\d_-]{11})(?:\\S+)?").evaluate(with: self)
    }

Upvotes: 0

Washington Kibichii
Washington Kibichii

Reputation: 408

This should work for almost all youtube links when extracting from a string:

((?:https?:)?\/\/)?((?:www|m)\.)?((?:youtube\.com|youtu.be))(\/(?:[\w\-]+\?v=|embed\/|v\/)?)([\w\-]{10}).\b

Upvotes: 0

Davron Achilov
Davron Achilov

Reputation: 621

Youtube video URL Change to iframe supported link:

REGEX: https://regex101.com/r/LeZ9WH/2/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA&feature=related
http://youtu.be/iwGFalTRHDA
http://youtu.be/n17B_uFF4cA
http://www.youtube.com/embed/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=r5nB9u4jjy4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-ZRX8984sc
http://youtu.be/t-ZRX8984sc
https://youtu.be/2sFlFPmUfNo?t=1

Php function example:

if (!function_exists('clean_youtube_link')) {

        /**
         * @param $link
         * @return string|string[]|null
         */
        function clean_youtube_link($link)
        {
            return preg_replace(
                '#(.+?)(\/)(watch\x3Fv=)?(embed\/watch\x3Ffeature\=player_embedded\x26v=)?([a-zA-Z0-9_-]{11})+#',
                "https://www.youtube.com/embed/$5",
                $link
            );
        }
}

Upvotes: 0

Zec
Zec

Reputation: 19

I took all variants from here:

https://gist.github.com/rodrigoborgesdeoliveira/987683cfbfcc8d800192da1e73adc486#file-youtubeurlformats-txt

And built this regexp (YouTube ID is in group 2):

(\/|%3D|v=|vi=)([0-9A-z-_]{11})[%#?&\s]

Check it here: https://regexr.com/4u4ud

Edit: Works for any single string w/o breaks.

Upvotes: 1

Alex Smith
Alex Smith

Reputation: 626

(?:http?s?:\/\/)?(?:www.)?(?:m.)?(?:music.)?youtu(?:\.?be)(?:\.com)?(?:(?:\w*.?:\/\/)?\w*.?\w*-?.?\w*\/(?:embed|e|v|watch|.*\/)?\??(?:feature=\w*\.?\w*)?&?(?:v=)?\/?)([\w\d_-]{11})(?:\S+)?

https://regex101.com/r/nJzgG0/3

Detects YouTube and YouTube Music link in any string

Upvotes: 1

Martin Taco
Martin Taco

Reputation: 51

This is my answer to use in Scala. This is useful to extract 11 digits from Youtube's URL.

"https?://(?:[0-9a-zA-Z-]+.)?(?:www.youtube.com/|youtu.be\S*[^\w-\s])([\w -]{11})(?=[^\w-]|$)(?![?=&+%\w](?:[\'"][^<>]>|))[?=&+%\w-]*"

def getVideoLinkWR: UserDefinedFunction = udf(f = (videoLink: String) => {
    val youtubeRgx = """https?://(?:[0-9a-zA-Z-]+\.)?(?:youtu\.be/|youtube\.com\S*[^\w\-\s])([\w \-]{11})(?=[^\w\-]|$)(?![?=&+%\w]*(?:[\'"][^<>]*>|</a>))[?=&+%\w-./]*""".r
    videoLink match {
        case youtubeRgx(a) => s"$a".toString
        case _ => videoLink.toString
    }
}

Upvotes: 0

Akash Jain
Akash Jain

Reputation: 1052

This regex solve my problem, I can get youtube link having watch, embed or shared link

(?:http(?:s)?:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?(?:youtu\.be\/|youtube\.com\/(?:(?:watch)?\?(?:.*&)?v(?:i)?=|(?:embed|v|vi|user)\/))([^\?&\"'<> #]+)

You can check here https://regex101.com/r/Kvk0nB/1

Upvotes: -1

user3475539
user3475539

Reputation: 41

here is the complete solution for getting youtube video id for java or android, i didn't found any link which doesn't work with this function

public static String getValidYoutubeVideoId(String youtubeUrl)
{
    if(youtubeUrl == null || youtubeUrl.trim().contentEquals(""))
    {
        return "";
    }
    youtubeUrl = youtubeUrl.trim();
    String validYoutubeVideoId = "";
    String regexPattern = "^(?:https?:\\/\\/)?(?:[0-9A-Z-]+\\.)?(?:youtu\\.be\\/|youtube\\.com\\S*[^\\w\\-\\s])([\\w\\-]{11})(?=[^\\w\\-]|$)(?![?=&+%\\w]*(?:['\"][^<>]*>|<\\/a>))[?=&+%\\w]*";
    Pattern regexCompiled = Pattern.compile(regexPattern, Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
    Matcher regexMatcher = regexCompiled.matcher(youtubeUrl);
    if(regexMatcher.find())
    {
        try
        {
            validYoutubeVideoId = regexMatcher.group(1);
        }
        catch(Exception ex)
        {
        }
    }
    return validYoutubeVideoId;
}

Upvotes: 0

jrom
jrom

Reputation: 1960

So far I got this Regular expression working for the examples I posted, and it gets the ID on the first group:

http(?:s?):\/\/(?:www\.)?youtu(?:be\.com\/watch\?v=|\.be\/)([\w\-\_]*)(&(amp;)?‌​[\w\?‌​=]*)?

Upvotes: 82

ProGirlXOXO
ProGirlXOXO

Reputation: 2300

Piggy backing on Fanmade, this covers the below links including the url encoded version of attribution_links:

(?:.+?)?(?:\/v\/|watch\/|\?v=|\&v=|youtu\.be\/|\/v=|^youtu\.be\/|watch\%3Fv\%3D)([a-zA-Z0-9_-]{11})+



https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=tolCzpA7CrY&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DMoBL33GT9S8%26feature%3Dshare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoBL33GT9S8&feature=share
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA&feature=related 
http://youtu.be/iwGFalTRHDA 
http://www.youtube.com/embed/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iwGFalTRHDA
http://www.youtube.com/embed/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA
http://www.youtube.com/embed/v=iwGFalTRHDA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iwGFalTRHDA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA 
www.youtu.be/iwGFalTRHDA 
youtu.be/iwGFalTRHDA 
youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA 
http://www.youtube.com/watch/iwGFalTRHDA
http://www.youtube.com/v/iwGFalTRHDA
http://www.youtube.com/v/i_GFalTRHDA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-GFalTRHDA&feature=related 
http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?u=/watch?v=aGmiw_rrNxk&feature=share&a=9QlmP1yvjcllp0h3l0NwuA
http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=fF1CWYwxCQ4&u=/watch?v=qYr8opTPSaQ&feature=em-uploademail
http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=fF1CWYwxCQ4&feature=em-uploademail&u=/watch?v=qYr8opTPSaQ

Upvotes: 4

Sata
Sata

Reputation: 61

I improved the links posted above with a friend for a script I wrote for IRC to recognize even links without http at all. It worked on all stress tests I got so far, including garbled text with barely recognizable youtube urls, so here it is:

~(?:https?://)?(?:www\.)?youtu(?:be\.com/watch\?(?:.*?&(?:amp;)?)?v=|\.be/)([\w\-]+)(?:&(?:amp;)?[\w\?=]*)?~

Upvotes: 6

Fanmade
Fanmade

Reputation: 306

I testet all the regular expressions that are shown here and none could cover all url types that my client was using.

I built this pretty much through trial and error, but it seems to work with all the patterns that Poppy Deejay posted.

"(?:.+?)?(?:\/v\/|watch\/|\?v=|\&v=|youtu\.be\/|\/v=|^youtu\.be\/)([a-zA-Z0-9_-]{11})+"

Maybe it helps someone who is in a similar situation that I had today ;)

Upvotes: 4

Poppy Deejay
Poppy Deejay

Reputation: 85

I've been having problems lately with the atttribution_link urls so i tried making my own regex that works for those too.

Here is my regex string:

(https?://)?(www\\.)?(yotu\\.be/|youtube\\.com/)?((.+/)?(watch(\\?v=|.+&v=))?(v=)?)([\\w_-]{11})(&.+)?

and here are some test cases i've tried:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA&feature=related 
http://youtu.be/iwGFalTRHDA 
http://www.youtube.com/embed/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iwGFalTRHDA
http://www.youtube.com/embed/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA
http://www.youtube.com/embed/v=iwGFalTRHDA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iwGFalTRHDA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA 
www.youtu.be/iwGFalTRHDA 
youtu.be/iwGFalTRHDA 
youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA 
http://www.youtube.com/watch/iwGFalTRHDA
http://www.youtube.com/v/iwGFalTRHDA
http://www.youtube.com/v/i_GFalTRHDA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-GFalTRHDA&feature=related 
http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?u=/watch?v=aGmiw_rrNxk&feature=share&a=9QlmP1yvjcllp0h3l0NwuA
http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=fF1CWYwxCQ4&u=/watch?v=qYr8opTPSaQ&feature=em-uploademail
http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=fF1CWYwxCQ4&feature=em-uploademail&u=/watch?v=qYr8opTPSaQ

Also remember to check the string you get for your video url, sometimes it may get the percent characters. If so just do this

url = [url stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

and it should fix it.

Remember also that the index of the youtube key is now index 9.

NSRange youtubeKey = [result rangeAtIndex:9]; //the youtube key
NSString * strKey = [url substringWithRange:youtubeKey] ;

Upvotes: 3

DrewBaumann
DrewBaumann

Reputation: 318

This is iterating on the existing answers and handles edge cases better. (for example http://thisisnotyoutu.be/thing)

/(?:https?:\/\/|www\.|m\.|^)youtu(?:be\.com\/watch\?(?:.*?&(?:amp;)?)?v=|\.be\/)([\w‌​\-]+)(?:&(?:amp;)?[\w\?=]*)?/

Upvotes: 0

Samuel
Samuel

Reputation: 3801

I'm working with that kind of links:

http://www.youtube.com/v/M-faNJWc9T0?fs=1&rel=0

And here's the regEx I'm using to get ID from it:

"(.+?)(\/v/)([a-zA-Z0-9_-]{11})+"

Upvotes: 0

TimS
TimS

Reputation: 6042

It'd be the longest RegEx in the world if you managed to cover all link formats, but here's one to get you started which will cover the first couple of link formats:

http://(www\.)?youtube\.com/watch\?.*v=([a-zA-Z0-9]+).*

The second group will match the video ID if you need to get that out.

Upvotes: 1

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