How do I get the Video Id from the URL? (DailyMotion)

Question

Example:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4xvnz_the-funny-crash-compilation_fun

How do I get x4xvnz?

Answer 1

I use this:

function getDailyMotionId($url)
{

    if (preg_match('!^.+dailymotion\.com/(video|hub)/([^_]+)[^#]*(#video=([^_&]+))?|(dai\.ly/([^_]+))!', $url, $m)) {
        if (isset($m[6])) {
            return $m[6];
        }
        if (isset($m[4])) {
            return $m[4];
        }
        return $m[2];
    }
    return false;
}

It can handle various urls:

$dailymotion = [
    'http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2jvvep_coup-incroyable-pendant-un-match-de-ping-pong_tv',
    'http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2jvvep_rates-of-exchange-like-a-renegade_music',
    'http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2jvvep',
    'http://www.dailymotion.com/hub/x2jvvep_Galatasaray',
    'http://www.dailymotion.com/hub/x2jvvep_Galatasaray#video=x2jvvep',
    'http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2jvvep_hakan-yukur-klip_sport',
    'http://dai.ly/x2jvvep',
];

Check out my github (https://github.com/lingtalfi/video-ids-and-thumbnails/blob/master/testvideo.php), I provide functions to get ids (and also thumbnails) from youtube, vimeo and dailymotion.