Regular expression for youtube links

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Does someone have a regular expression that gets a link to a Youtube video (not embedded object) from (almost) all the possible ways of linking to Youtube?

I think this is a pretty common problem and I'm sure there are a lot of ways to link that.

A starting point would be:

youtube regex
20 Answers

I like @brunodles's solution the most but you can still match non video links like https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions

I went with this solution

(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?youtu(?:\.be\/|be.com\/\S*(?:watch|embed)(?:(?:(?=\/[-a-zA-Z0-9_]{11,}(?!\S))\/)|(?:\S*v=|v\/)))([-a-zA-Z0-9_]{11,})

It can also be used to match multiple whitespace separated links. The video id will be captured in the first group.

Tested with the following urls:

youtu.be/iwGFalTRHDA
youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoBL33GT9S8&feature=share
https://www.youtube.com/embed/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iwGFalTRHDA
https://www.youtube.com/embed/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA
https://www.youtube.com/embed/v=iwGFalTRHDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch/iwGFalTRHDA
http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?u=/watch?v=aGmiw_rrNxk&feature=share
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA

// will not match
https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgc00bfF_PvO_2AvqJZHXFg
https://www.youtube.com/c/NatGeoEdOrg/videos

https://regex101.com/r/rq2KLv/1

user_63658580 
(?:http?s?:\/\/)?(?:www.)?(?:m.)?(?:music.)?youtu(?:\.?be)(?:\.com)?(?:(?:\w*.?:\/\/)?\w*.?\w*-?.?\w*\/(?:embed|e|v|watch|.*\/)?\??(?:feature=\w*\.?\w*)?&?(?:v=)?\/?)([\w\d_-]{11})(?:\S+)?

https://regex101.com/r/nJzgG0/3

Detects YouTube and YouTube Music link in any string

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user_5247430

This is my answer to use in Scala. This is useful to extract 11 digits from Youtube's URL.

"https?://(?:[0-9a-zA-Z-]+.)?(?:www.youtube.com/|youtu.be\S*[^\w-\s])([\w -]{11})(?=[^\w-]|$)(?![?=&+%\w](?:[\'"][^<>]>|))[?=&+%\w-]*"

def getVideoLinkWR: UserDefinedFunction = udf(f = (videoLink: String) => {
    val youtubeRgx = """https?://(?:[0-9a-zA-Z-]+\.)?(?:youtu\.be/|youtube\.com\S*[^\w\-\s])([\w \-]{11})(?=[^\w\-]|$)(?![?=&+%\w]*(?:[\'"][^<>]*>|</a>))[?=&+%\w-./]*""".r
    videoLink match {
        case youtubeRgx(a) => s"$a".toString
        case _ => videoLink.toString
    }
}
user_112287530

Youtube video URL Change to iframe supported link:

REGEX: https://regex101.com/r/LeZ9WH/2/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA&feature=related
http://youtu.be/iwGFalTRHDA
http://youtu.be/n17B_uFF4cA
http://www.youtube.com/embed/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=r5nB9u4jjy4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-ZRX8984sc
http://youtu.be/t-ZRX8984sc
https://youtu.be/2sFlFPmUfNo?t=1

Php function example:

if (!function_exists('clean_youtube_link')) {

        /**
         * @param $link
         * @return string|string[]|null
         */
        function clean_youtube_link($link)
        {
            return preg_replace(
                '#(.+?)(\/)(watch\x3Fv=)?(embed\/watch\x3Ffeature\=player_embedded\x26v=)?([a-zA-Z0-9_-]{11})+#',
                "https://www.youtube.com/embed/$5",
                $link
            );
        }
}
user_81829720

This should work for almost all youtube links when extracting from a string:

((?:https?:)?\/\/)?((?:www|m)\.)?((?:youtube\.com|youtu.be))(\/(?:[\w\-]+\?v=|embed\/|v\/)?)([\w\-]{10}).\b
user_123422300 
    var isValidYoutubeLink: Bool{
        // working for all the youtube url's
        NSPredicate(format: "SELF MATCHES %@", "(?:http?s?:\\/\\/)?(?:www.)?(?:m.)?(?:music.)?youtu(?:\\.?be)(?:\\.com)?(?:(?:\\w*.?:\\/\\/)?\\w*.?\\w*-?.?\\w*\\/(?:embed|e|v|watch|.*\\/)?\\??(?:feature=\\w*\\.?\\w*)?&?(?:v=)?\\/?)([\\w\\d_-]{11})(?:\\S+)?").evaluate(with: self)
    }
user_144179780

With this Javascript Regex, the first capture is a video ID :

^(?:https?:)?(?:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?(?:youtu\.be\/|youtube(?:\-nocookie)?\.(?:[A-Za-z]{2,4}|[A-Za-z]{2,3}\.[A-Za-z]{2})\/)(?:watch|embed\/|vi?\/)*(?:\?[\w=&]*vi?=)?([^#&\?\/]{11}).*$

Admin1 
(?-s)^https?\W+(?:www\.|m\.|music\.)*youtu\.?be(?:\.com|\/watch|\/o?embed|\/shorts|\/attribution_link\?[&\w\-=]*[au]=|\/ytsc\w+|[\?&\/]+[ve]i?\b|\?feature=\w+|-nocookie)*[\/=]([a-z\d\-_]{11})[\?&#% \t ] *.*$

or

(?-s)^(?:(?!https?[:\/]|www\.|m\.yo|music\.yo|youtu\.?be[\/\.]|watch[\/\?]|embed\/)\V)*(?:https?[:\/]+|www\.|m\.|music\.)+youtu\.?be(?:\.com\/|watch|o?embed(?:\/|\?url=\S+?)?|shorts|attribution_link\?[&\w\-=]*[au]=\/?|ytsc\w+|[\?&]*[ve]i?\b|\?feature=\w+|[\?&]time_continue=\d+|-nocookie|%[23][56FD])*(?:[\/=]|%2F|%3D)([a-z\d\-_]{11})[\?&#% \t ]? *.*$

(the part >>#% \t⠀　]<< should contain continuous space, which is Alt+255, but stackoverflow-com can't print it) (this string may be replaced to \1, sorted and abbreviated with: )

V█(?-i)^([A-Za-z\d\-_]{11})(?:\v+\1)*$
>█https:\/\/youtu\.be\/\1

(./dot can take up any symbol; \V or [^\r\n] can any except special, emoji and others; this >> [^!-⠀：／‽｜\s] << can grab some emoji)

https://youtu.be/x26ANNC3C-8 • ♾  -    • 7:15
user_43040250

This regex solve my problem, I can get youtube link having watch, embed or shared link

(?:http(?:s)?:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?(?:youtu\.be\/|youtube\.com\/(?:(?:watch)?\?(?:.*&)?v(?:i)?=|(?:embed|v|vi|user)\/))([^\?&\"'<> #]+)

You can check here https://regex101.com/r/Kvk0nB/1

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