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This snippets show how to extract the video id of a youtube video from its URL
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extract_youtube_video_id_from_any_youtube_URL.js
// Source : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3452546/javascript-regex-how-to-get-youtube-video-id-from-url
var regExp = /^.*(youtu.be\/|v\/|u\/\w\/|embed\/|watch\?v=)([^#\&\?]*).*/;
var match = url.match(regExp);
if (match&&match[2].length==11){
return match[2];
}else{
//error
}
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