getting the youtube id from a link

Question

I got this code to get the youtube id from the links like www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxx

  URL youtubeURL = new URL(link);
  youtubeURL.getQuery();
         


        

Answer 1

This doesn't use a regex but should still do the job.

/**
 * Returns the video id of a YouTube watch link.
 */
public static String getVideoId(String watchLink)
{
    return watchLink.substring(watchLink.length() - 11);
}