Youtube Video Id from URL - Swift3

Question

Basically I have a Youtube URL as string, I want to extract the video Id from that URL. I found some code in objective c that is as below:

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Answer 1

A Swift 4 version using the elegant flatMap:

func extractYouTubeId(from url: String) -> String? {
    let typePattern = "(?:(?:\\.be\\/|embed\\/|v\\/|\\?v=|\\&v=|\\/videos\\/)|(?:[\\w+]+#\\w\\/\\w(?:\\/[\\w]+)?\\/\\w\\/))([\\w-_]+)"
    let regex = try? NSRegularExpression(pattern: typePattern, options: .caseInsensitive)
    return regex
        .flatMap { $0.firstMatch(in: url, range: NSMakeRange(0, url.count)) }
        .flatMap { Range($0.range(at: 1), in: url) }
        .map { String(url[$0]) }
}

This method uses a regex that detects most of the possible YouTube URL formats (.be/*, /embed/, /v/ - you can find the full list here).