How do I get the YouTube video ID from a URL?

Question

I want to get the v=id from YouTube’s URL with JavaScript (no jQuery, pure JavaScript).

Example YouTube URL formats

http://www.youtube.c

Answer 1

I made a small function to extract the video id out of a Youtube url which can be seen below.

var videoId = function(url) {
   var match = url.match(/v=([0-9a-z_-]{1,20})/i);
   return (match ? match['1'] : false);
};

console.log(videoId('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ'));
console.log(videoId('https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=17s&v=dQw4w9WgXcQ'));
console.log(videoId('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&t=17s'));

This function will extract the video id even if there are multiple parameters in the url.