Grab the youtube Video ID with Jquery & .match()

Question

Just need a little push as I have this almost working.

I want to feed jquery a URL and have it strip everthing but the video url.

Here is my code:

Answer 1

if you are not forced to use match, you can use "split":

var getList = function(url, gkey){

        var returned = null;

        if (url.indexOf("?") != -1){

          var list = url.split("?")[1].split("&"),
                  gets = [];

          for (var ind in list){
            var kv = list[ind].split("=");
            if (kv.length>0)
                gets[kv[0]] = kv[1];
        }

        returned = gets;

        if (typeof gkey != "undefined")
            if (typeof gets[gkey] != "undefined")
                returned = gets[gkey];

        }

        return returned;

};

var url = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxp8NWvIeSo';
$result = getList(url, "v");
alert($result);