Grab the video ID from YouTube URL?

Question

Say I have a list of IDs like so:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE
http://youtu.be/KMU0tzLwhbE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE&featured=         


        

Answer 1

Try this:

$video_url = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE"; // http://youtu.be/KMU0tzLwhbE
$url_parts = parse_url($video_url);

if (isset($url_parts["query"]) && (strpos($url_parts["query"], "v") !== false)) {
  parse_str($url_parts["query"], $vars);

  // Handle full URLs with query string like 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE'
  if (isset($vars["v"]) && $vars["v"]) {
    $video_code = $vars["v"];

  // Handle the new short URLs like 'http://youtu.be/KMU0tzLwhbE'
  } else if ($url_parts['path']) {
    $video_code = trim($url_parts['path'], '/');
  }
}