Regular Expressions 101

Community Patterns

URL parser for YouTube and Vimeo

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Regular Expression
PCRE (PHP <7.3)

/
(http:|https:|)\/\/(player.|www.)?(vimeo\.com|youtu(be\.com|\.be|be\.googleapis\.com|be\-nocookie\.com))\/(video\/|embed\/|watch\?\S*v=|v\/)?([A-Za-z0-9._%-]*)(\&\S+)?
/
g

Description

Extract movie ID from URLs like YouTube and Vimeo

Submitted by Max Chuhryaev - 8 years ago