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

Question

I want to get the v=id from YouTube’s URL with JavaScript (no jQuery, pure JavaScript).

Example YouTube URL formats

http://www.youtube.c

Answer 1

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\/)|(?:(?:watch)?\?v(?:i)?=|\&v(?:i)?=))([^#\&\?]*).*/

// For testing.
var urls = [
    '//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\/)|(?:(?:watch)?\?v(?:i)?=|\&v(?:i)?=))([^#\&\?]*).*/;

for (i = 0; i < urls.length; ++i) {
    r = urls[i].match(rx);
    console.log(r[1]);
}