Converting a regular Youtube 'link' into an embedded video

Question

My goal: I am trying to allow users to embed a link to a Youtube video in my site, while giving me control over the player\'s settings.

I would like to do this by only a

Answer 1

I do this quite often for clients, the gist of it is that you parse out the ID from the URL, then generate the iframe HTML using this.

def youtube_embed(youtube_url)
  if youtube_url[/youtu\.be\/([^\?]*)/]
    youtube_id = $1
  else
    # Regex from # http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3452546/javascript-regex-how-to-get-youtube-video-id-from-url/4811367#4811367
    youtube_url[/^.*((v\/)|(embed\/)|(watch\?))\??v?=?([^\&\?]*).*/]
    youtube_id = $5
  end

  %Q{}
end

youtube_embed('youtu.be/jJrzIdDUfT4')
# => 

I put this in a helper. Change the height, width and options to taste.