YouTube ID extractor
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Fri. Jul. 20th, 2007 7:42 PM
Function that you can use to extract the ID from YouTube links that
look like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv2aS8YtpmU
http://www.youtube.com/vi/Fv2aS8YtpmU
http://www.youtube.com/?v=Fv2aS8YtpmU
and you can extract this "Fv2aS8YtpmU" so you can use it to get thumbnails that look like : http://img.youtube.com/vi/[videoid]/default.jpg
look like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv2aS8YtpmU
http://www.youtube.com/vi/Fv2aS8YtpmU
http://www.youtube.com/?v=Fv2aS8YtpmU
and you can extract this "Fv2aS8YtpmU" so you can use it to get thumbnails that look like : http://img.youtube.com/vi/[videoid]/default.jpg
<?php
function youtubeid($url) {
if (preg_match('%youtube\\.com/(.+)%', $url, $match)) {
$match = $match[1];
$replace = array("watch?v=", "v/", "vi/");
$match = str_replace($replace, "", $match);
}
return $match;
}
//Usage
$video_id = youtubeid("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv2aS8YtpmU");
echo $video_id;
?>
Sasa Karanovic
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function youtubeid($url) {
if (preg_match('%youtube\\.com/(.+)%', $url, $match)) {
$match = $match[1];
$replace = array("watch?v=", "v/", "vi/");
$match = str_replace($replace, "", $match);
//Below we remove everything after "&" (example: "&feature=related")
$match=array_shift(explode('&', basename($match)));
}
return $match;
}