how to check the valid Youtube url using jquery

Question

In Jquery i want to check the specific url from youtube alone and show success status and others i want to skip by stating it as not valid url

var _videoUrl          


        

Answer 1

You can check if URL contains the word "http://www.youtube.com" using .indexOf()

var url = 'http://www.youtube.com/channel/UChh-akEbUM8_6ghGVnJd6cQ';
if (url.indexOf('http://www.youtube.com') > -1) {
  alert( "true");
} else {
  alert( "false");
}