Please how do i extract youtube video id from these links maybe using Regex

[sledjama]

http://www.youtube.com/v/[videoid]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[videoid]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[videoid]&feature=blabla

Thanks

[DarrylBurke]

The samples you posted don't reveal a regularity that could be used to extract the ID. Does the "videoid" follow any pattern?

db

[sledjama]

the video id is a 11 character string that could be a-z A-Z 0-9 underscore and dash
it could be
youtube.com/?v=videoid
youtube.com/v/videoid
youtube.com/watch?v=videoid
youtube.com/watch?v=videoid&feature=whatever&this=that

i got stole this code

Pattern p = Pattern.compile("http.*\\?v=([a-zA-Z0-9_\\-]+)(?:&.)*");
Matcher m = p.matcher(input);

if (m.matches()) {
input = m.group(1);
}

return input;

from here (http://gdata-java-client.googlecode....iteClient.java)

i know thats what the coder used for videoid extraction but i just dont know if this solve the above

[Norm]

See cross post at: Please how do i extract youtube video id from these links maybe using Regex

[DarrylBurke]

Thanks Norm.

db

[Dark]

You could check the strings with .contains and depending on which one link you get is how you could cut from the strings. That is if you have a limited number of link variations.