Regex To Extract Video ID From Youtube Link

A regular expression to extract Youtube video ID from a link.

/(?<=watch\?v=|/videos/|embed\/|youtu.be\/|\/v\/|watch\?v%3D|%2Fvideos%2F|embed%2F|youtu.be%2F|%2Fv%2F)[^#\&\?\n]*/g

Matches:

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgoXVDo2JuM
  • https://www.youtube.com/embed/hgoXVDo2JuM
  • https://www.youtu.be/embed/hgoXVDo2JuM

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