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

/^.*(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.