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

Question

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Answer 1

I think you can do this more easily if you'll start to study the YouTube API.

Answer 2

Make the URL as an array and than take the second to last part. For example this also works with CSS background-image.

id = $('div').attr('style').split('/');
id = id[id.length-2];
alert("YouTube ID: " + id);

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div style="background-image:url('https://img.youtube.com/vi/MHUOty8-Ty0/0.jpg');"></div>

https://jsfiddle.net/Wobbo/wfyL1hem/7/

Answer 3

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.

<img src="http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/LL0Y4MZ45bo/0.jpg" class="youtubeimg"></img>
<iframe src="" class="youtubeiframe"></iframe>

<script>
    $(function (){
        var youtubeid = $(".youtubeimg").attr("src").match(/[\w\-]{11,}/)[0];
        $(".youtubeiframe").attr({ 
              src: "http://www.youtube.com/embed/" + youtubeid,
        });
    });
</script>

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