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sgb

Reputation: 2364

Regex to get youtube video ID from full <object>

Had a look round but couldn't find a working (and recent) solution for this.

Using an API I am receiving a string like this:

<object width="600" height="338">
    <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ItT88H3nAWw?version=3&feature=oembed"></param>
    <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
    <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ItT88H3nAWw?version=3&feature=oembed" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="338" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed>
</object>

What would be a regular expression in PHP to extract just the video id? e.g. ItT88H3nAWw

Upvotes: 1

Views: 824

Answers (2)

PiTheNumber
PiTheNumber

Reputation: 23542

Regexp is ugly. Use something like: getBetween('www.youtube.com/v/', '?version')

Ok, here another version. Assuming $s is your string and youtube does not change it's ID length:

$p = strpos($s, 'youtube.com/v/') + count('youtube.com/v/');
$id = substr($s, $p, count('ItT88H3nAWw') );

Upvotes: 0

hsz
hsz

Reputation: 152216

Get src param from embed tag WITHOUT regexp. Then parse it in following way:

$youtubeUrl = 'http://www.youtube.com/v/ItT88H3nAWw?version=3&feature=oembed';

if ( preg_match('youtube\.\w+.*?v[/=](\w+)', $youtubeUrl, $matches) ) {
  $youtubeId = $matches[1];
}

This regexp will handle both:

To convert HTML string to an object use SimpleXMLElement.

$obj = new SimpleXMLElement($htmlCode);
$youtubeUrl = $obj->embed->src;

Upvotes: 1

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