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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:
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@:%_\+~#= , to match the domain/sub domain name.
$ means "Match the end of the string" (the position after the last character in the string). Both are called anchors and ensure that the entire string is matched instead of just a substring.
[] denotes a character class. () denotes a capturing group. [a-z0-9] -- One character that is in the range of a-z OR 0-9. (a-z0-9) -- Explicit capture of a-z0-9 .
Locate a URL using a browser on a computerIn your browser, open YouTube. Find and click the video whose URL you want to see. The URL of the video will be in the address bar.
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\?=]*)? 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.
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