How to embed Youtube live chat with url permanent?

Question

The embed URL for a channel\'s live stream is:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/live_stream?channel=CHANNEL_ID

and it works but if I want to e

Answer 1

You could get the video ID using PHP like this:

getMessage();
}

// The method which finds the video ID
function getLiveVideoID($channelId)
{
    $videoId = null;

    // Fetch the livestream page
    if($data = file_get_contents('https://www.youtube.com/embed/live_stream?channel='.$channelId))
    {
        // Find the video ID in there
        if(preg_match('/\'VIDEO_ID\': \"(.*?)\"/', $data, $matches))
            $videoId = $matches[1];
        else
            throw new Exception('Couldn\'t find video ID');
    }
    else
        throw new Exception('Couldn\'t fetch data');

    return $videoId;
}