Webflags: g

YouTube Video ID

Extract 11-character YouTube video IDs from long URLs, short URLs, or embed URLs.

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Available in

JSSupported

JavaScript / ECMAScript

Browser-native RegExp. Default if you don't pick.

PYSupported

Python (re)

CPython stdlib `re`. Unicode-aware `\w` and `\d` by default.

GOSupported

Go (RE2)

Linear-time matching. No backreferences or lookarounds.

Pattern

regexengine-agnostic
(?:youtube\.com\/watch\?v=|youtu\.be\/|youtube\.com\/embed\/)([\w\-]{11})   (flags: g)

Raw source: (?:youtube\.com\/watch\?v=|youtu\.be\/|youtube\.com\/embed\/)([\w\-]{11})

How it works

Matches any of three URL forms (watch?v=, youtu.be/, embed/) and captures the 11-character video ID that follows. The ID uses word characters and hyphens.

Examples

Input

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Matches

  • youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Input

https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

Matches

  • youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

Input

not a youtube url

No match

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Common use cases

  • •Content scraping and normalisation
  • •Embed URL rewriting
  • •Analytics tagging and attribution
  • •Link preview rendering

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