YouTube Vimeo Video ID from Embed Code or From URL with PHP Regular Expression RegEx

Question

I want to get Video ID for YouTube or Vimeo via its Embed code or from URL, Any solution to do this with PHP ?

Answer 1

According to the latest youtube standard, you can use following code to extract video id from embed code.

$embed = '';
preg_match('~embed/(.*?)"~', $embed, $output);
echo $output[1];

Thank you