Youtube I.D parsing for new URL formats

I had to deal with this for a PHP class I wrote a few weeks ago and ended up with a regex that matches any kind of strings: With or without URL scheme, with or without subdomain, youtube.com URL strings, youtu.be URL strings and dealing with all kind of parameter sorting. You can check it out at GitHub or simply copy and paste the code block below:

/** *  Check if input string is a valid YouTube URL *  and try to extract the YouTube Video ID from it. *  @author  Stephan Schmitz <eyecatchup@gmail.com> *  @param   $url   string   The string that shall be checked. *  @return  mixed           Returns YouTube Video ID, or (boolean) false. */function parse_yturl($url){    $pattern = '#^(?:https?://|//)?(?:www\.|m\.)?(?:youtu\.be/|youtube\.com/(?:embed/|v/|watch\?v=|watch\?.+&v=))([\w-]{11})(?![\w-])#';    preg_match($pattern, $url, $matches);    return (isset($matches[1])) ? $matches[1] : false;}

Test cases: https://3v4l.org/GEDT0
JavaScript version: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10315969/624466

To explain the regex, here's a split up version:

/** *  Check if input string is a valid YouTube URL *  and try to extract the YouTube Video ID from it. *  @author  Stephan Schmitz <eyecatchup@gmail.com> *  @param   $url   string   The string that shall be checked. *  @return  mixed           Returns YouTube Video ID, or (boolean) false. */function parse_yturl($url){    $pattern = '#^(?:https?://|//)?' # Optional URL scheme. Either http, or https, or protocol-relative.             . '(?:www\.|m\.)?'      #  Optional www or m subdomain.             . '(?:'                 #  Group host alternatives:             .   'youtu\.be/'        #    Either youtu.be,             .   '|youtube\.com/'    #    or youtube.com             .     '(?:'             #    Group path alternatives:             .       'embed/'        #      Either /embed/,             .       '|v/'           #      or /v/,             .       '|watch\?v='    #      or /watch?v=,             .       '|watch\?.+&v=' #      or /watch?other_param&v=             .     ')'               #    End path alternatives.             . ')'                   #  End host alternatives.             . '([\w-]{11})'         # 11 characters (Length of Youtube video ids).             . '(?![\w-])#';         # Rejects if overlong id.    preg_match($pattern, $url, $matches);    return (isset($matches[1])) ? $matches[1] : false;}

I found this code this link:

<?php /**  *  parse_youtube_url() PHP function  *  Author: takien  *  URL: http://takien.com  *   *  @param  string  $url    URL to be parsed, eg:   *                            http://youtu.be/zc0s358b3Ys,   *                            http://www.youtube.com/embed/zc0s358b3Ys *                            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc0s358b3Ys  *  @param  string  $return what to return  *                            - embed, return embed code  *                            - thumb, return URL to thumbnail image *                            - hqthumb, return URL to high quality thumbnail image. *  @param  string     $width  width of embeded video, default 560 *  @param  string  $height height of embeded video, default 349 *  @param  string  $rel    whether embeded video to show related video after play or not. */   function parse_youtube_url($url,$return='embed',$width='',$height='',$rel=0){     $urls = parse_url($url);     //expect url is http://youtu.be/abcd, where abcd is video iD    if($urls['host'] == 'youtu.be'){          $id = ltrim($urls['path'],'/');     }     //expect  url is http://www.youtube.com/embed/abcd     else if(strpos($urls['path'],'embed') == 1){          $id = end(explode('/',$urls['path']));     }      //expect url is abcd only     else if(strpos($url,'/')===false){         $id = $url;     }     //expect url is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abcd     else{         parse_str($urls['query']);         $id = $v;     }     //return embed iframe     if($return == 'embed'){         return '<iframe width="'.($width?$width:560).'" height="'.($height?$height:349).'" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/'.$id.'?rel='.$rel.'" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>';     }     //return normal thumb     else if($return == 'thumb'){         return 'http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/'.$id.'/default.jpg';     }     //return hqthumb     else if($return == 'hqthumb'){         return 'http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/'.$id.'/hqdefault.jpg';     }     // else return id     else{         return $id;     } } ?>

I'm dealing with this too so if you find a better solution please let me know. It doesn't quite do what you need for images out of the box but it could be easily adapted.

It's a bit late, but I wrote this regex today and it does not only identify the links but returns the video_id via match-group 6

^(https?\:\/\/)?(www\.)?(youtube\.com|youtu\.?be)(\/)?(watch\?v=|\?v=)?(.*)$

https://gist.github.com/Shibizle/3c6707911ea716860786728d31f8e3e5

Test it: https://regex101.com/r/l0m7yh/1

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