Regular Expressions 101

Community Patterns

Youtube id und parameter extraction

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Regular Expression
PCRE (PHP <7.3)

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# # Inspired by http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6556559/youtube-api-extract-video-id # Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8QuLYXKNCg&rel=0&autoplay=1 # # Match any youtube URL (?:https?://)? # Optional scheme. Either http or https (?:www\.)? # Optional www subdomain (?: # Group host alternatives youtu\.be/ # Either youtu.be, | youtube\.com # or youtube.com (?: # Group path alternatives /embed/ # Either /embed/ | /v/ # or /v/ | /watch\?v= # or /watch\?v= ) # End path alternatives. )? # End host alternatives. ([\w-]{10,12}) # Allow 10-12 for 11 char youtube id. (?:[&?](.*)) # Optional Parameters $
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Description

Nice and understandable Version of youtubelink fields extraction.

Submitted by erotanimul (co-author ;) - 8 years ago