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Revision: 26411
at April 27, 2010 16:02 by nkm
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/http:\/\/(?:youtu\.be\/|(?:[a-z]{2,3}\.)?youtube\.com\/watch(?:\?|#\!)v=)([\w-]{11}).*/gi
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PCRE that matches any kind of YouTube URL and catches its video ID. It supports three kinds of URL: the classic (?v=), the AJAXed one (#!v=) and the short version (youtu.be). It also supports international URLs.

Tested with Javascript and PHP.

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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YouTube URL matcher, video ID catcher

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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url, javascript, php, video, regexp

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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