regex help

[fris]

trying to get this youtube regex to work with /v/videoid as well as regular youtube links.

(http:\/\/)?(www\.)?(youtube\.com)?(\/)?(watch\?)?(v=)?([a-zA-Z0-9]{11})

here is the current regex suggested by borked.

[iwiiiiiiiiii]

You're regex seem ok, but I don't understand "to work with /v/videoid"

[Kiopa_Matt]

I don't understand what you're trying to do. Just get the video ID? Assuming it's PHP:

if (preg_match("/\?([\w\d]+)/", $url, $match)) { 
    $video_id = $match[1];
} else { echo "No Video ID"; }

You don't need that combumbulated mess of a regex.

[margarita]

all this (http:\/\/)?(www\.)?(youtube\.com)?(\/)?(watch\?)?(v=)? is useless, because you've made it optional using the "?"

[u-Bob]

do you need all those parts or only the video id?

[u-Bob]

/http:\/\/?(www\.)youtube\.com\/(watch\?v=)|(\/v\/)?([a-zA-Z0-9]{11})/

can clean it up a lot if you want

[2012]

the servers are humming

[fris]

im trying to get the video id from these types

http://www.youtube.com/v/dgCrY8Mezd4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgCrY8Mezd4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgCrY...ure=grec_index

also

embed codes

<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xVvRfMZ-3s4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xVvRfMZ-3s4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>

[iwiiiiiiiiii]

What u-bob gave you should work.