how to get YouTube video id from image thumbnail source, and set as an iframe?

Question

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Answer 1

This extracts the YouTube ID using a Regular Expression, I made the assumption that it would be a minimum of eleven characters as the first YouTube Video ID has 11.

This works, however the YouTube Player API may provide you with a more stable solution to loading that iFrame, in the future once it becomes stable I would recommend the YouTube iFrame API