How do I get the YouTube video ID from a URL?

И

Илья Зеленько

I made an enhancement to Regex provided by "jeffreypriebe" because he needed a kind of YouTube URL is the URL of the videos when they are looking through a channel.

Well no but this is the function that I have armed.

<script type="text/javascript">
function youtube_parser(url){
    var regExp = /^.*((youtu.be\/)|(v\/)|(\/u\/\w\/)|(embed\/)|(watch\?))\??v?=?([^#&?]*).*/;
    var match = url.match(regExp);
    return (match&&match[7].length==11)? match[7] : false;
}
</script>

These are the types of URLs supported

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg&feature=feedrec_grec_index
http://www.youtube.com/user/IngridMichaelsonVEVO#p/a/u/1/QdK8U-VIH_o
http://www.youtube.com/v/0zM3nApSvMg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg#t=0m10s
http://www.youtube.com/embed/0zM3nApSvMg?rel=0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg
http://youtu.be/0zM3nApSvMg

Can be found in [http://web.archive.org/web/20160926134334/] http://lasnv.net/foro/839/Javascript_parsear_URL_de_YouTube

The regex contains a little bug \??v?=? this should just be at the watch part, otherwise you would filter a 'v' if the id starts with a 'v'. so this should do the trick /^.*((youtu.be\/)|(v\/)|(\/u\/\w\/)|(embed\/)|(watch\??v?=?))([^#\&\?]*).*/

Even cleaner: /.*(?:youtu.be\/|v\/|u\/\w\/|embed\/|watch\?v=)([^#\&\?]*).*/ Then use match[1] instead of match[7] (which seemed a bit arbitrary to me). Also fixes bug pointed out by WebDev.

You realise that this regex is not actually even checking the domain; it's so permissive that the string "v/2g5jg1Q2e6k" is enough to match it.

How long until YouTube IDs are 12 characters long?

Anyone can extend this reqex and thus people complaining are not making any sense.

L

LosManos

I simplified Lasnv's answer a bit.

It also fixes the bug that WebDeb describes.

Here it is:

var regExp = /^.*(youtu\.be\/|v\/|u\/\w\/|embed\/|watch\?v=|\&v=)([^#\&\?]*).*/;
var match = url.match(regExp);
if (match && match[2].length == 11) {
  return match[2];
} else {
  //error
}

Here is a regexer link to play with: http://regexr.com/3dnqv

just a heads up: this should only be used when you know that you are dealing with a youtube url. I (wrongfully) used it to verify urls as youtube, which caused false positives, e.g. this passes: 'v/2059-9080-5437'

I'm using now a different Regex that also checks for a youtube domain. I'm not sure if I should update the answer as it's a big change: /^.*(youtu.be\/|youtube(-nocookie)?.com\/(v\/|.*u\/\w\/|embed\/|.*v=))([\w-]{11}).*/

When will YouTube switch to 12 characters for the video ID?

shouldn't the dot in "youtu.be" be escaped?

you're right @jitbit Thank you. Although it usually works as well without escaping it.

J

Jacob Relkin

You don't need to use a regular expression for this.

var video_id = window.location.search.split('v=')[1];
var ampersandPosition = video_id.indexOf('&');
if(ampersandPosition != -1) {
  video_id = video_id.substring(0, ampersandPosition);
}

this is a usefull function to make it work where you want based on this code. var video_url = 'youtube.com/watch?v=eOrNdBpGMv8&feature=youtube_gdata'; ytid(video_url); function ytid(video_url) { var video_id = video_url.split('v=')[1]; var ampersandPosition = video_id.indexOf('&'); if (ampersandPosition != -1) { video_id = video_id.substring(0, ampersandPosition); } alert(video_id); return video_id; }

does not handle embedded URLs

also doesn't handle 'share' generated urls- https://youtu.be/{{video_id}}

This regex works well with youtube share and watch url.

url='https://youtu.be/{{video_id}}'; url.match(/(?:https?:\/{2})?(?:w{3}\.)?youtu(?:be)?\.(?:com|be)(?:\/watch\?v=|\/)([^\s&]+)/);

S

Sobral

None of these worked on the kitchen sink as of 1/1/2015, notably URLs without protocal http/s and with youtube-nocookie domain. So here's a modified version that works on all these various Youtube versions:

// Just the regex. Output is in [1]. /^.*(?:(?:youtu\.be\/|v\/|vi\/|u\/\w\/|embed\/|shorts\/)|(?:(?:watch)?\?v(?:i)?=|\&v(?:i)?=))([^#\&\?]*).*/ // For testing. var urls = [ 'https://youtube.com/shorts/dQw4w9WgXcQ?feature=share', '//www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/up_lNV-yoK4?rel=0', 'http://www.youtube.com/user/Scobleizer#p/u/1/1p3vcRhsYGo', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKZDdG9FTKY&feature=channel', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ-K7nCVnBI&playnext_from=TL&videos=osPknwzXEas&feature=sub', 'http://www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom?v=NRHVzbJVx8I', 'http://www.youtube.com/user/SilkRoadTheatre#p/a/u/2/6dwqZw0j_jY', 'http://youtu.be/6dwqZw0j_jY', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dwqZw0j_jY&feature=youtu.be', 'http://youtu.be/afa-5HQHiAs', 'http://www.youtube.com/user/Scobleizer#p/u/1/1p3vcRhsYGo?rel=0', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKZDdG9FTKY&feature=channel', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ-K7nCVnBI&playnext_from=TL&videos=osPknwzXEas&feature=sub', 'http://www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom?v=NRHVzbJVx8I', 'http://www.youtube.com/embed/nas1rJpm7wY?rel=0', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peFZbP64dsU', 'http://youtube.com/v/dQw4w9WgXcQ?feature=youtube_gdata_player', 'http://youtube.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ?feature=youtube_gdata_player', 'http://youtube.com/?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player', 'http://youtube.com/?vi=dQw4w9WgXcQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player', 'http://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player', 'http://youtube.com/watch?vi=dQw4w9WgXcQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player', 'http://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?feature=youtube_gdata_player' ]; var i, r, rx = /^.*(?:(?:youtu\.be\/|v\/|vi\/|u\/\w\/|embed\/|shorts\/)|(?:(?:watch)?\?v(?:i)?=|\&v(?:i)?=))([^#\&\?]*).*/; for (i = 0; i < urls.length; ++i) { r = urls[i].match(rx); console.log(r[1]); }

Worth noting that many of the above solutions don't cover this wide batch of valid urls, the test script is very helpful, +1!

Note that this will be fooled by something like "www.engadget.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ", not that it's likely to be a problem though

It works, but couldnt fixed the issue arising a text with multiple youtube url's See this regex101.com/r/qK5qJ5/1. It should not replace the second url.

If you don't want that an empty ID matches: ^.*(?:(?:youtu\.be\/|v\/|vi\/|u\/\w\/|embed\/)|(?:(?:watch)?\?v(?:i)?=|\&v(?:i)?=))([^#\&\?]+).* (i.e. youtube.com/watch?v= will not match)

@rmutalik "everything but the kitchen sink" is an expression in English meaning "everything imaginable." In this case the author is making a reference to "all of the possible URLs."

C

Community

/^.*(youtu.be\/|v\/|e\/|u\/\w+\/|embed\/|v=)([^#\&\?]*).*/

Tested on:

http://www.youtube.com/v/0zM3nApSvMg?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0

http://www.youtube.com/embed/0zM3nApSvMg?rel=0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg&feature=feedrec_grec_index

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg

http://youtu.be/0zM3nApSvMg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg#t=0m10s

http://www.youtube.com/user/IngridMichaelsonVEVO#p/a/u/1/KdwsulMb8EQ

http://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

http://www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ

http://www.youtube.com/v/dQw4w9WgXcQ

http://www.youtube.com/e/dQw4w9WgXcQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

http://www.youtube.com/?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

http://www.youtube.com/?feature=player_embedded&v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

http://www.youtube.com/user/IngridMichaelsonVEVO#p/u/11/KdwsulMb8EQ

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/6L3ZvIMwZFM?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0

Inspired by this other answer.

^.*(?:youtu.be\/|v\/|e\/|u\/\w+\/|embed\/|v=)([^#\&\?]*).* will give you the result in group 1

V

Vlad

The best solution (from 2019-2021) I found is that:

function YouTubeGetID(url){
   url = url.split(/(vi\/|v=|\/v\/|youtu\.be\/|\/embed\/)/);
   return (url[2] !== undefined) ? url[2].split(/[^0-9a-z_\-]/i)[0] : url[0];
}

I found it here.

/*
* Tested URLs:
var url = 'http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/4e_kz79tjb8?version=3';
url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=g-vrec&v=Y1xs_xPb46M';
url = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ab25nviakcw#';
url = 'http://youtu.be/Ab25nviakcw';
url = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab25nviakcw';
url = '<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ab25nviakcw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>';
url = '<object width="420" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/Ab25nviakcw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/Ab25nviakcw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>';
url = 'http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/Ab25nviakcw/default.jpg';
url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGL22PTIOAM&feature=g-all-xit';
url = 'BGL22PTIOAM';
*/

TypeScript: const youTubeGetID = (url: string) => { const [a, , b] = url .replace(/(>|<)/gi, '') .split(/(vi\/|v=|\/v\/|youtu\.be\/|\/embed\/)/); if (b !== undefined) { return b.split(/[^0-9a-z_-]/i)[0]; } else { return a; } };

fails for v=nfDGK_WSFro

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jeffreypriebe

Given that YouTube has a variety of URL styles, I think Regex is a better solution. Here is my Regex:

^.*(youtu.be\/|v\/|embed\/|watch\?|youtube.com\/user\/[^#]*#([^\/]*?\/)*)\??v?=?([^#\&\?]*).*

Group 3 has your YouTube ID

Sample YouTube URLs (currently, including "legacy embed URL style") - the above Regex works on all of them:

http://www.youtube.com/v/0zM3nApSvMg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0
http://www.youtube.com/embed/0zM3nApSvMg?rel=0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg&feature=feedrec_grec_index
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg
http://youtu.be/0zM3nApSvMg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg#t=0m10s
http://www.youtube.com/user/IngridMichaelsonVEVO#p/a/u/1/QdK8U-VIH_o

Hat tip to Lasnv

You really need to go back to the drawing board with this one. Yes it matches the above URLs correctly. But it also erroneously matches many other non-youtube-url strings such as: "domain.com/embed/file.txt", "/tv/" and "Has anyone seen my watch?". See: my answer to a similar question for a much more precise solution.

I see your point: the above regex is useless to answer the question of "Is this a YouTube URL?" but that wasn't my goal. I have YouTube URLs - I'm merely extracting an ID. Yes, your answer is solid (and covers a use case that mine doesn't).

you have the same bug i mentioned above with ids beginning with a 'v'

Thanks @WebDev - do you know if YouTube ever puts a v in the ID (or starts an ID with a "v")?

Still works as of today (2013-01-25). Here's an example of it in action: jsfiddle.net/bcmoney/yBP4J

t

tsdorsey

tl;dr.

Matches all URL examples on this question and then some.

let re = /(https?:\/\/)?(((m|www)\.)?(youtube(-nocookie)?|youtube.googleapis)\.com.*(v\/|v=|vi=|vi\/|e\/|embed\/|user\/.*\/u\/\d+\/)|youtu\.be\/)([_0-9a-z-]+)/i;
let id = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-gQLqv9f4o".match(re)[7];

ID will always be in match group 8.

Live examples of all the URLs I grabbed from the answers to this question: https://regexr.com/3u0d4

Full explanation:

As many answers/comments have brought up, there are many formats for youtube video URLs. Even multiple TLDs where they can appear to be "hosted".

You can look at the full list of variations I checked against by following the regexr link above.

Lets break down the RegExp.

^ Lock the string to the start of the string. (https?:\/\/)? Optional protocols http:// or https:// The ? makes the preceding item optional so the s and then the entire group (anything enclosed in a set of parenthesis) are optional.

Ok, this next part is the meat of it. Basically we have two options, the various versions of [optional-subdomain].youtube.com/...[id] and the link shortened youtu.be/[id] version.

(                                                  // Start a group which will match everything after the protocol and up to just before the video id.
  ((m|www)\.)?                                     // Optional subdomain, this supports looking for 'm' or 'www'.
  (youtube(-nocookie)?|youtube.googleapis)         // There are three domains where youtube videos can be accessed. This matches them.
  \.com                                            // The .com at the end of the domain. 
  .*                                               // Match anything 
  (v\/|v=|vi=|vi\/|e\/|embed\/|user\/.*\/u\/\d+\/) // These are all the things that can come right before the video id. The | character means OR so the first one in the "list" matches.
  |                                                // There is one more domain where you can get to youtube, it's the link shortening url which is just followed by the video id. This OR separates all the stuff in this group and the link shortening url.
  youtu\.be\/                                      // The link shortening domain
)                                                  // End of group

Finally we have the group to select the video ID. At least one character that is a number, letter, underscore, or dash.

([_0-9a-z-]+)

You can find out much more detail about each part of the regex by heading over the regexr link and seeing how each part of the expression matches with the text in the url.

Change /^ to /^.* at the beginning to allow this solution to work even in the case of leading white spaces or other garbage.

Good idea. I just updated the regex to remove the ^ entirely, it's not needed. I've also updated the regexr example as well. Thanks @AlexanderD'Attore

This is a phenomenal answer. I also appreciate the detail and the huge list of URLs you're testing against. Very useful for a 2021 / 2022 answer :)

Some improvements would be to allow m\.youtube\.com (for mobile), and possibly youtube\... (for local top level domains). Also, the now removed ^ at the beginning might be useful for those who want stricter URL-checking. But anyway, this answer is pretty good, thanks!

Thanks for the feedback @Magnus. I have updated the regular expression to allow for the 'm' subdomain. It's more complete but technically not required as the subdomain was optional. As to the removed ^ I left that up to the person using it as that kind of requirement is task dependent and not in the scope of this answer.

J

Joakim

I created a function that tests a users input for Youtube, Soundcloud or Vimeo embed ID's, to be able to create a more continous design with embedded media. This function detects and returns an object withtwo properties: "type" and "id". Type can be either "youtube", "vimeo" or "soundcloud" and the "id" property is the unique media id.

On the site I use a textarea dump, where the user can paste in any type of link or embed code, including the iFrame-embedding of both vimeo and youtube.

function testUrlForMedia(pastedData) {
var success = false;
var media   = {};
if (pastedData.match('http://(www.)?youtube|youtu\.be')) {
    if (pastedData.match('embed')) { youtube_id = pastedData.split(/embed\//)[1].split('"')[0]; }
    else { youtube_id = pastedData.split(/v\/|v=|youtu\.be\//)[1].split(/[?&]/)[0]; }
    media.type  = "youtube";
    media.id    = youtube_id;
    success = true;
}
else if (pastedData.match('http://(player.)?vimeo\.com')) {
    vimeo_id = pastedData.split(/video\/|http:\/\/vimeo\.com\//)[1].split(/[?&]/)[0];
    media.type  = "vimeo";
    media.id    = vimeo_id;
    success = true;
}
else if (pastedData.match('http://player\.soundcloud\.com')) {
    soundcloud_url = unescape(pastedData.split(/value="/)[1].split(/["]/)[0]);
    soundcloud_id = soundcloud_url.split(/tracks\//)[1].split(/[&"]/)[0];
    media.type  = "soundcloud";
    media.id    = soundcloud_id;
    success = true;
}
if (success) { return media; }
else { alert("No valid media id detected"); }
return false;
}

Nice idea, but it doesn't work on the vast majority of URL formats. Including not matching on any https sites.

p

podperson

Late to the game here, but I've mashed up two excellent responses from mantish and j-w. First, the modified regex:

const youtube_regex = /^.*(youtu\.be\/|vi?\/|u\/\w\/|embed\/|\?vi?=|\&vi?=)([^#\&\?]*).*/

Here's the test code (I've added mantish's original test cases to j-w's nastier ones):

 var urls = [
      'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg&feature=feedrec_grec_index',
      'http://www.youtube.com/user/IngridMichaelsonVEVO#p/a/u/1/QdK8U-VIH_o',
      'http://www.youtube.com/v/0zM3nApSvMg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0',
      'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg#t=0m10s',
      'http://www.youtube.com/embed/0zM3nApSvMg?rel=0',
      'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg',
      'http://youtu.be/0zM3nApSvMg',
      '//www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/up_lNV-yoK4?rel=0',
      'http://www.youtube.com/user/Scobleizer#p/u/1/1p3vcRhsYGo',
      'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKZDdG9FTKY&feature=channel',
      'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ-K7nCVnBI&playnext_from=TL&videos=osPknwzXEas&feature=sub',
      'http://www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom?v=NRHVzbJVx8I',
      'http://www.youtube.com/user/SilkRoadTheatre#p/a/u/2/6dwqZw0j_jY',
      'http://youtu.be/6dwqZw0j_jY',
      'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dwqZw0j_jY&feature=youtu.be',
      'http://youtu.be/afa-5HQHiAs',
      'http://www.youtube.com/user/Scobleizer#p/u/1/1p3vcRhsYGo?rel=0',
      'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKZDdG9FTKY&feature=channel',
      'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ-K7nCVnBI&playnext_from=TL&videos=osPknwzXEas&feature=sub',
      'http://www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom?v=NRHVzbJVx8I',
      'http://www.youtube.com/embed/nas1rJpm7wY?rel=0',
      'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peFZbP64dsU',
      'http://youtube.com/v/dQw4w9WgXcQ?feature=youtube_gdata_player',
      'http://youtube.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ?feature=youtube_gdata_player',
      'http://youtube.com/?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player',
      'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player',
      'http://youtube.com/?vi=dQw4w9WgXcQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player',
      'http://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player',
      'http://youtube.com/watch?vi=dQw4w9WgXcQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player',
      'http://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?feature=youtube_gdata_player'
  ];

  var failures = 0;
  urls.forEach(url => {
    const parsed = url.match(youtube_regex);
    if (parsed && parsed[2]) {
      console.log(parsed[2]);
    } else {
      failures++;
      console.error(url, parsed);
    }
  });
  if (failures) {
    console.error(failures, 'failed');
  }

Experimental version to handle the m.youtube urls mentioned in comments:

const youtube_regex = /^.*((m\.)?youtu\.be\/|vi?\/|u\/\w\/|embed\/|\?vi?=|\&vi?=)([^#\&\?]*).*/

It requires parsed[2] to be changed to parsed[3] in two places in the tests (which it then passes with m.youtube urls added to the tests). Let me know if you see problems.

You should add this one in your testing suit since it was problematic and your regexp resolved it for me : youtu.be/ve4f400859I . The letter v was stripped out in my previous regexp

I get false postive for http://youtu.be/ if I add the / it marks it as valid. Using it in (value) => /^.*(youtu\.be\/|vi?\/|u\/\w\/|embed\/|\?vi?=|\&vi?=)([^#\&\?]*).*/.test(value)

Thanks for the comments. I haven't updated my example yet (don't have time to test) so anyone using my code please take note :-)

what about url of type = m.youtube.com

@MehulThakkar are they otherwise similar to youtube.com urls?

D

Dipo

This regex matches embed, share and link URLs.

const youTubeIdFromLink = (url) => url.match(/(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.|m\.)?youtu(?:be)?\.(?:com|be)(?:\/watch\/?\?v=|\/embed\/|\/)([^\s&\?\/\#]+)/)[1];


console.log(youTubeIdFromLink('https://youtu.be/You-Tube_ID?rel=0&hl=en')); //You-Tube_ID

console.log(youTubeIdFromLink('https://www.youtube.com/embed/You-Tube_ID?rel=0&hl=en')); //You-Tube_ID

console.log(youTubeIdFromLink('https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=You-Tube_ID&rel=0&hl=en')); //You-Tube_ID

Thank you. I changed it a bit at the end: regex101.com/r/bTrei2/1

@MrMartiniMo Thanks for the heads up but the regex in your link still doesn’t match YouTube IDs that contain hyphen (-). Example: youtube.com/watch?v=06w3-l1AzFk. I have updated my answer to match YouTube ID containing any character except the url delimiters.

M

Mark

Since YouTube video ids is set to be 11 characters, we can simply just substring after we split the url with v=. Then we are not dependent on the ampersand at the end.

var sampleUrl = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcjoGn6FLwI&asdasd";

var video_id = sampleUrl.split("v=")[1].substring(0, 11)

Nice and simple :)

This one is literally a duplicate of the accepted answer

r

romaninsh

I have summed up all the suggestions and here is the universal and short answer to this question:

if(url.match('http://(www.)?youtube|youtu\.be')){
    youtube_id=url.split(/v\/|v=|youtu\.be\//)[1].split(/[?&]/)[0];
}

s

surya

Java Code: (Works for all the URLs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg&feature=feedrec_grec_index http://www.youtube.com/user/IngridMichaelsonVEVO#p/a/u/1/QdK8U-VIH_o http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/0zM3nApSvMg?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg#t=0m10s http://www.youtube.com/embed/0zM3nApSvMg?rel=0" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg http://youtu.be/0zM3nApSvMg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8UVNT4wvIGY

)

    String url = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg&feature=feedrec_grec_index";

    String regExp = "/.*(?:youtu.be\\/|v\\/|u/\\w/|embed\\/|watch\\?.*&?v=)";
    Pattern compiledPattern = Pattern.compile(regExp);
    Matcher matcher = compiledPattern.matcher(url);
    if(matcher.find()){
        int start = matcher.end();
        System.out.println("ID : " + url.substring(start, start+11));

    }

For DailyMotion:

String url = "http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4xvnz_the-funny-crash-compilation_fun";

    String regExp = "/video/([^_]+)/?";
    Pattern compiledPattern = Pattern.compile(regExp);
    Matcher matcher = compiledPattern.matcher(url);
    if(matcher.find()){
        String match = matcher.group();
        System.out.println("ID : " + match.substring(match.lastIndexOf("/")+1));

    }

Remove the double quotes from around the Regex pattern in the JavaScript code and it should work.

A

Alan Moore

Slightly stricter version:

^https?://(?:www\.)?youtu(?:\.be|be\.com)/(?:\S+/)?(?:[^\s/]*(?:\?|&)vi?=)?([^#?&]+)

Tested on:

http://www.youtube.com/user/dreamtheater#p/u/1/oTJRivZTMLs
https://youtu.be/oTJRivZTMLs?list=PLToa5JuFMsXTNkrLJbRlB--76IAOjRM9b
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTJRivZTMLs&feature=youtu.be
https://youtu.be/oTJRivZTMLs
http://youtu.be/oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom?v=oTJRivZTMLs
http://www.youtube.com/embed/oTJRivZTMLs?rel=0
http://youtube.com/v/oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel
http://youtube.com/v/oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel
http://youtube.com/vi/oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel
http://youtube.com/?v=oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel
http://youtube.com/?feature=channel&v=oTJRivZTMLs
http://youtube.com/?vi=oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel
http://youtube.com/watch?vi=oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel

G

Grant Miller

You can use the following code to get the YouTube video ID from a URL:

url = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMFqkcPYcg"
VID_REGEX = /(?:youtube(?:-nocookie)?\.com\/(?:[^\/\n\s]+\/\S+\/|(?:v|e(?:mbed)?)\/|\S*?[?&]v=)|youtu\.be\/)([a-zA-Z0-9_-]{11})/
alert(url.match(VID_REGEX)[1]);

I had issues with all other regex examples but this one effectively works on the 3 share options people on desktops use. an url from the address bar, an url from the share button and an url from the inline share button. Thanks!!!

K

Kai - Kazuya Ito

I have got a Regex which supports commonly used url's which also includes YouTube Shorts

Regex Pattern:

(youtu.*be.*)\/(watch\?v=|embed\/|v|shorts|)(.*?((?=[&#?])|$))

Javascript Return Method:

function getId(url) {
  let regex = /(youtu.*be.*)\/(watch\?v=|embed\/|v|shorts|)(.*?((?=[&#?])|$))/gm;
  return regex.exec(url)[3];
}

Types of URL's supported:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg&feature=feedrec_grec_index
http://www.youtube.com/user/IngridMichaelsonVEVO#p/a/u/1/QdK8U-VIH_o
http://www.youtube.com/v/0zM3nApSvMg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg#t=0m10s
http://www.youtube.com/embed/0zM3nApSvMg?rel=0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg
http://youtu.be/0zM3nApSvMg
https://youtube.com/shorts/0dPkkQeRwTI?feature=share
https://youtube.com/shorts/0dPkkQeRwTI

With Test:

https://regex101.com/r/5JhmpW/1

Most simple, yet effective solution from this thread

S

Stefan

This can get video id from any type of youtube links

var url= 'http://youtu.be/0zM3nApSvMg';
var urlsplit= url.split(/^.*(youtu.be\/|v\/|embed\/|watch\?|youtube.com\/user\/[^#]*#([^\/]*?\/)*)\??v?=?([^#\&\?]*).*/);
console.log(urlsplit[3]);

J

Josha

A slightly changed version from the one mantish posted:

var regExp = /^.*(youtu.be\/|v\/|u\/\w\/|embed\/|watch\?v=|\&v=)([^#\&\?]{11,11}).*/;
var match = url.match(regExp);
if (match) if (match.length >= 2) return match[2];
// error

This assumes the code is always 11 characters. I'm using this in ActionScript, not sure if {11,11} is supported in Javascript. Also added support for &v=.... (just in case)

this was the only one that worked for a url i was testing with: youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0zM3nApSvMg

perfect. thanks @Josha 69 link combination i test all is worked for me.

P

Peter Mortensen

This definitely requires regex:

Copy into Ruby IRB:

var url = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLqASIXrVbY"
var VID_REGEX = /(?:youtube(?:-nocookie)?\.com\/(?:[^\/\n\s]+\/\S+\/|(?:v|e(?:mbed)?)\/|\S*?[?&]v=)|youtu\.be\/)([a-zA-Z0-9_-]{11})/
url.match(VID_REGEX)[1]

See for all test cases: https://gist.github.com/blairanderson/b264a15a8faaac9c6318

P

Peter Mortensen

One more:

var id = url.match(/(^|=|\/)([0-9A-Za-z_-]{11})(\/|&|$|\?|#)/)[2]

It works with any URL showed in this thread.

It won't work when YouTube addS some other parameter with 11 base64 characters. Till then it is the easy way.

T

TURTLE

I made a small function to extract the video id out of a Youtube url which can be seen below.

var videoId = function(url) { var match = url.match(/v=([0-9a-z_-]{1,20})/i); return (match ? match['1'] : false); }; console.log(videoId('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ')); console.log(videoId('https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=17s&v=dQw4w9WgXcQ')); console.log(videoId('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&t=17s'));

This function will extract the video id even if there are multiple parameters in the url.

S

Subhasmith Thapa

If someone needs the perfect function in Kotlin to save their time. Just hoping this helps

fun extractYTId(ytUrl: String?): String? {
    var vId: String? = null
    val pattern = Pattern.compile(
        "^https?://.*(?:youtu.be/|v/|u/\\w/|embed/|watch?v=)([^#&?]*).*$",
        Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE
    )
    val matcher = pattern.matcher(ytUrl)
    if (matcher.matches()) {
        vId = matcher.group(1)
    }
    return vId
}

T

Tom Chapin

Here's a ruby version of this:

def youtube_id(url)
   # Handles various YouTube URLs (youtube.com, youtube-nocookie.com, youtu.be), as well as embed links and urls with various parameters
   regex = /(?:youtube(?:-nocookie)?\.com\/(?:[^\/\n\s]+\/\S+\/|(?:v|vi|e(?:mbed)?)\/|\S*?[?&]v=|\S*?[?&]vi=)|youtu\.be\/)([a-zA-Z0-9_-]{11})/
   match = regex.match(url)
   if match && !match[1].nil?
      match[1]
   else
      nil
   end
end

To test the method:

example_urls = [
   'www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/dQw4-9W_XcQ?rel=0',
   'http://www.youtube.com/user/Scobleizer#p/u/1/dQw4-9W_XcQ',
   'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4-9W_XcQ&feature=channel',
   'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4-9W_XcQ&playnext_from=TL&videos=osPknwzXEas&feature=sub',
   'http://www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom?v=dQw4-9W_XcQ',
   'http://www.youtube.com/user/SilkRoadTheatre#p/a/u/2/dQw4-9W_XcQ',
   'http://youtu.be/dQw4-9W_XcQ',
   'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4-9W_XcQ&feature=youtu.be',
   'http://youtu.be/dQw4-9W_XcQ',
   'http://www.youtube.com/user/Scobleizer#p/u/1/dQw4-9W_XcQ?rel=0',
   'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4-9W_XcQ&playnext_from=TL&videos=dQw4-9W_XcQ&feature=sub',
   'http://www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom?v=dQw4-9W_XcQ',
   'http://www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4-9W_XcQ?rel=0',
   'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4-9W_XcQ',
   'http://youtube.com/v/dQw4-9W_XcQ?feature=youtube_gdata_player',
   'http://youtube.com/vi/dQw4-9W_XcQ?feature=youtube_gdata_player',
   'http://youtube.com/?v=dQw4-9W_XcQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player',
   'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4-9W_XcQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player',
   'http://youtube.com/?vi=dQw4-9W_XcQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player',
   'http://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4-9W_XcQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player',
   'http://youtube.com/watch?vi=dQw4-9W_XcQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player',
   'http://youtu.be/dQw4-9W_XcQ?feature=youtube_gdata_player'
]

# Test each one
example_urls.each do |url|
   raise 'Test failed!' unless youtube_id(url) == 'dQw4-9W_XcQ'
end

To see this code and run the tests in an online repl you can also go here: https://repl.it/@TomChapin/youtubeid

u

user2200660

I liked Surya's answer.. Just a case where it won't work...

String regExp = "/.*(?:youtu.be\\/|v\\/|u/\\w/|embed\\/|watch\\?.*&?v=)";

doesn't work for

youtu.be/i4fjHzCXg6c  and  www.youtu.be/i4fjHzCXg6c

updated version:

String regExp = "/?.*(?:youtu.be\\/|v\\/|u/\\w/|embed\\/|watch\\?.*&?v=)";

works for all.

R

Rohit Suthar

Try this one -

function getYouTubeIdFromURL($url) 
{
  $pattern = '/(?:youtube.com/(?:[^/]+/.+/|(?:v|e(?:mbed)?)/|.*[?&]v=)|youtu.be/)([^"&?/ ]{11})/i';
  preg_match($pattern, $url, $matches);

  return isset($matches[1]) ? $matches[1] : false;
}

m

mindaug

Chris Nolet cleaner example of Lasnv answer is very good, but I recently found out that if you trying to find your youtube link in text and put some random text after the youtube url, regexp matches way more than needed. Improved Chris Nolet answer:

/^.*(?:youtu.be\/|v\/|u\/\w\/|embed\/|watch\?v=)([^#\&\?]{11,11}).*/

A

Agafonov

function parser(url){
    var regExp = /^.*((youtu.be\/)|(v\/)|(\/u\/\w\/)|(embed\/)|(watch\/)|(\?v=|\&v=))([^#\&\?]*).*/;
    var match = url.match(regExp);
    if (match && match[8].length==11){
            alert('OK');
    }else{
            alert('BAD');
    }
}

For testing:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/vDoO_bNw7fc - attention first symbol «v» in «vDoO_bNw7fc»

http://www.youtube.com/user/dreamtheater#p/u/1/oTJRivZTMLs
https://youtu.be/oTJRivZTMLs?list=PLToa5JuFMsXTNkrLJbRlB--76IAOjRM9b
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTJRivZTMLs&feature=youtu.be
https://youtu.be/oTJRivZTMLs
http://youtu.be/oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom?v=oTJRivZTMLs
http://www.youtube.com/embed/oTJRivZTMLs?rel=0
http://youtube.com/v/oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel
http://youtube.com/v/oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel
http://youtube.com/vi/oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel
http://youtube.com/?v=oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel
http://youtube.com/?feature=channel&v=oTJRivZTMLs
http://youtube.com/?vi=oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel
http://youtube.com/watch?vi=oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel

S

Semih Keskin

i wrote a function for that below:

function getYoutubeUrlId (url) {
    const urlObject = new URL(url);
    let urlOrigin = urlObject.origin;
    let urlPath = urlObject.pathname;

    if (urlOrigin.search('youtu.be') > -1) {
        return urlPath.substr(1);
    }

    if (urlPath.search('embed') > -1) {
        // Örneğin "/embed/wCCSEol8oSc" ise "wCCSEol8oSc" return eder.
        return urlPath.substr(7);
    }

   
    return urlObject.searchParams.get('v');
},

https://gist.github.com/semihkeskindev/8a4339c27203c5fabaf2824308c7868f

C

Community

Well, the way to do it with simple parsing would be: get everything starting after the first = sign to the first & sign.

I think they had a similiar answer here:

Parsing a Vimeo ID using JavaScript?

And what if the URL doesn't contains &?

Then you must find what's the equivalent delimiter. For instance, the first URL you gave us its the & sign. On the second URL, the end of the string is the delimiter.

How do I get the YouTube video ID from a URL?

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