Find youtube Link in PHP string and Convert it into embed code?

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Find a Youtube video link in PHP String and convert it into Embed Code?

Embed Code:

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/0GfCP5CWHO0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

PHP Code / String:

<?php echo $post_details['description']; ?>

Youtube Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GfCP5CWHO0

Possible duplicates: stackoverflow.com/questions/10435645/… stackoverflow.com/questions/15401445/… stackoverflow.com/questions/4713311/… — Amal
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How was this +2 with 3 favourites when I viewed it? Is this some sort of new comment spam? — Matt Humphrey
– Matt Humphrey, Commented Sep 27, 2013 at 12:39

Ahmad Mobaraki · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-13 05:51:29Z

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There are two types of youtube link for one video:

Example:

$link1 = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVcpJZJ60Ao';
$link2 = 'https://www.youtu.be/NVcpJZJ60Ao';

This function handles both:

function getYoutubeEmbedUrl($url)
{
     $shortUrlRegex = '/youtu.be\/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)\??/i';
     $longUrlRegex = '/youtube.com\/((?:embed)|(?:watch))((?:\?v\=)|(?:\/))([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/i';

    if (preg_match($longUrlRegex, $url, $matches)) {
        $youtube_id = $matches[count($matches) - 1];
    }

    if (preg_match($shortUrlRegex, $url, $matches)) {
        $youtube_id = $matches[count($matches) - 1];
    }
    return 'https://www.youtube.com/embed/' . $youtube_id ;
}

The output of $link1 or $link2 would be the same :

 $output1 = getYoutubeEmbedUrl($link1);
 $output2 = getYoutubeEmbedUrl($link2);
 // output for both:  https://www.youtube.com/embed/NVcpJZJ60Ao

Now you can use the output in iframe!

edited Dec 13, 2019 at 5:51

answered Jan 28, 2017 at 12:59

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3 Comments

cch Over a year ago

What happens in situations where the url will be like so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=NVcpJZJ60Ao ?

Tim M Over a year ago

I added a hyphen to this to make it work with some of my share links: $shortUrlRegex = '/youtu.be\/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)\??/i';

Zach Tackett Over a year ago

This should be the accepted answer, it helped me greatly, thank you!

Joran Den Houting · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-27 12:48:26Z

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Try this:

preg_replace("/\s*[a-zA-Z\/\/:\.]*youtube.com\/watch\?v=([a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+)([a-zA-Z0-9\/\*\-\_\?\&\;\%\=\.]*)/i","<iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/$1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>",$post_details['description']);

edited Sep 27, 2013 at 12:48

answered Sep 27, 2013 at 12:43

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Hassan Sardar Over a year ago

Rest of the code is working perfect , but if i post : "Check this video : youtube.com/watch?v=0GfCP5CWHO0 " . video does appears but the text appears with too many spaces

Joran Den Houting Over a year ago

Can you give an example of the output? Please update your openings post :)

Hassan Sardar Over a year ago

here is the out put ,, check the words on top of the video: img585.imageshack.us/img585/1025/vfxy.png

Joran Den Houting Over a year ago

It's a styling issue, nothing to to with my code! You can use the above and just need to style the text. :)

Hassan Sardar Over a year ago

But styling are totally perfect without this code, if i press enter and than place the youtube link , it works fine, but for the single link it appears link this

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Syone · Accepted Answer · 2023-03-17 10:08:57Z

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A little enhancement of Joran's solution to handle all these use cases:

Long URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[ID]
    
Short URL: https://youtu.be/[ID]

Long URL with time parameter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[ID]&t=[TIME]s

Short URL with time parameter: https://youtu.be/[ID]?t=[TIME]

Long URL with other parameters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[ID]&t=[TIME]s&foo=hello&bar=world

Short URL with other parameters: https://youtu.be/[ID]?t=[TIME]&foo=hello&bar=world

Mobile URL: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=[ID]&t=[TIME]s

function convertYoutube($string) {
    return preg_replace(
        "/[a-zA-Z\/\/:\.]*youtu(?:be.com\/watch\?v=|.be\/)([a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+)(?:[&?\/]t=)?(\d*)(?:[a-zA-Z0-9\/\*\-\_\?\&\;\%\=\.]*)/i",
        "<iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/$1?start=$2\" allowfullscreen></iframe>",
        $string
    );
}

You can test this function online here

edited Mar 17, 2023 at 10:08

answered Dec 5, 2014 at 13:56

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John Max Over a year ago

However the code is working but it displays only a small video

Syone Over a year ago

You can set the width and height you want to the iframe : syframework.alwaysdata.net/convert-youtube-url-to-iframe

pendingfox Over a year ago

this does not work. change anything in the text string and hit run. iframe scr has no "v" value anymore.

iniravpatel · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-01 11:14:31Z

A quick function for generating Embed url link of any of the FB/vimeo/youtube videos.

public function generateVideoEmbedUrl($url){
    //This is a general function for generating an embed link of an FB/Vimeo/Youtube Video.
    $finalUrl = '';
    if(strpos($url, 'facebook.com/') !== false) {
        //it is FB video
        $finalUrl.='https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href='.rawurlencode($url).'&show_text=1&width=200';
    }else if(strpos($url, 'vimeo.com/') !== false) {
        //it is Vimeo video
        $videoId = explode("vimeo.com/",$url)[1];
        if(strpos($videoId, '&') !== false){
            $videoId = explode("&",$videoId)[0];
        }
        $finalUrl.='https://player.vimeo.com/video/'.$videoId;
    }else if(strpos($url, 'youtube.com/') !== false) {
        //it is Youtube video
        $videoId = explode("v=",$url)[1];
        if(strpos($videoId, '&') !== false){
            $videoId = explode("&",$videoId)[0];
        }
        $finalUrl.='https://www.youtube.com/embed/'.$videoId;
    }else if(strpos($url, 'youtu.be/') !== false){
        //it is Youtube video
        $videoId = explode("youtu.be/",$url)[1];
        if(strpos($videoId, '&') !== false){
            $videoId = explode("&",$videoId)[0];
        }
        $finalUrl.='https://www.youtube.com/embed/'.$videoId;
    }else{
        //Enter valid video URL
    }
    return $finalUrl;
}

Suraj Dott · Accepted Answer · 2023-08-18 06:12:36Z

Example:

$link1 = getEmbedUrl('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIjqw7zuEVE');
$link2 = getEmbedUrl('https://vimeo.com/356810502');
$link3 = getEmbedUrl('https://example.com/link/12345');

Function:

function getEmbedUrl($url) {
    // function for generating an embed link
    $finalUrl = '';

    if (strpos($url, 'facebook.com/') !== false) {
        // Facebook Video
        $finalUrl.='https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href='.rawurlencode($url).'&show_text=1&width=200';

    } else if(strpos($url, 'vimeo.com/') !== false) {
        // Vimeo video
        $videoId = isset(explode("vimeo.com/",$url)[1]) ? explode("vimeo.com/",$url)[1] : null;
        if (strpos($videoId, '&') !== false){
            $videoId = explode("&",$videoId)[0];
        }
        $finalUrl.='https://player.vimeo.com/video/'.$videoId;

    } else if (strpos($url, 'youtube.com/') !== false) {
        // Youtube video
        $videoId = isset(explode("v=",$url)[1]) ? explode("v=",$url)[1] : null;
        if (strpos($videoId, '&') !== false){
            $videoId = explode("&",$videoId)[0];
        }
        $finalUrl.='https://www.youtube.com/embed/'.$videoId;

    } else if(strpos($url, 'youtu.be/') !== false) {
        // Youtube  video
        $videoId = isset(explode("youtu.be/",$url)[1]) ? explode("youtu.be/",$url)[1] : null;
        if (strpos($videoId, '&') !== false) {
            $videoId = explode("&",$videoId)[0];
        }
        $finalUrl.='https://www.youtube.com/embed/'.$videoId;

    } else if (strpos($url, 'dailymotion.com/') !== false) {
        // Dailymotion Video
        $videoId = isset(explode("dailymotion.com/",$url)[1]) ? explode("dailymotion.com/",$url)[1] : null;
        if (strpos($videoId, '&') !== false) {
            $videoId = explode("&",$videoId)[0];
        }
        $finalUrl.='https://www.dailymotion.com/embed/'.$videoId;

    } else{
        $finalUrl.=$url;
    }

    return $finalUrl;
}

Updated Link for Dailymotion:

$finalUrl .= 'https://geo.dailymotion.com/player.html?video='.$videoId;

Hi Suraj, am wondering how to use this to generate the thumbnails for each video? Is that possible?

Luke Stevenson · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-02 04:23:14Z

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I know this is an old thread, but for anyone having this challenge and looking for assistance, I found a PHP Class on GitHub - Embera.

Basically an oembed library which converts YouTube URLs in any string into the associated iframe element. I'm using it, and will continue to use it everywhere!

answered Jul 2, 2016 at 4:23

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Sagive · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-14 09:30:07Z

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I think a safe, super simple way to get the id
which is kinda bulletproof is to simply use the URL structure.

function getYoutubeEmbedUrl($url){

    $urlParts   = explode('/', $url);
    $vidid      = explode( '&', str_replace('watch?v=', '', end($urlParts) ) );

    return 'https://www.youtube.com/embed/' . $vidid[0] ;
}

edited Aug 14, 2018 at 9:30

answered Aug 14, 2018 at 9:22

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Mahesh Yadav · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-06 18:20:26Z

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Below will work for all type of YouTube URLs.

preg_match('%(?:youtube(?:-nocookie)?\.com/(?:[^/]+/.+/|(?:v|e(?:mbed)?)/|.*[?&]v=)|youtu\.be/)([^"&?/ ]{11})%i', $url, $match);

$youtube_id = $match[1];

answered Jan 6, 2018 at 18:20

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Shakil Hossain · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-04 12:17:55Z

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<?php
$url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9-kU7gfuFA';
preg_match('/[\\?\\&]v=([^\\?\\&]+)/', $url, $matches);
$id = $matches[1];
$width = '800px';
$height = '450px'; ?>

<iframe id="ytplayer" type="text/html" width="<?php echo $width ?>" height="<?php echo $height ?>"
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/<?php echo $id ?>?rel=0&showinfo=0&color=white&iv_load_policy=3"
frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

answered Mar 4, 2018 at 12:17

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Nurul Huda · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-07 10:47:48Z

Another simple alternative would be using parse_url and parse_str functions.

function getYoutubeEmbedUrl ($url) {
  $parsedUrl = parse_url($url);
  # extract query string
  parse_str(@$parsedUrl['query'], $queryString);
  $youtubeId = @$queryString['v'] ?? substr(@$parsedUrl['path'], 1);

  return "https://youtube.com/embed/{$youtubeId}";
}

Lets say we have these two links:

$link1 = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVcpJZJ60Ao';
$link2 = 'https://www.youtu.be/NVcpJZJ60Ao';

getYoutubeEmbedUrl($link1); // https://youtube.com/embed/NVcpJZJ60Ao
getYoutubeEmbedUrl($link2); // https://youtube.com/embed/NVcpJZJ60Ao

Explanation

parse_url function will extract link into 4 components: scheme, host, path, and query (see docs).

parse_url($link1);

// output
[
  "scheme" => "https",
  "host" => "www.youtube.com",
  "path" => "/watch",
  "query" => "v=NVcpJZJ60Ao",
]

The output of $link2 would be:

parse_url($link2);

// output
[
  "scheme" => "https",
  "host" => "www.youtu.be",
  "path" => "/NVcpJZJ60Ao",
]

And parse_str will convert query string into an array (see docs).

parse_str('v=NVcpJZJ60Ao', $output);

// value of variable $output
[
  "v" => "NVcpJZJ60Ao",
]

Tim Nikischin · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-27 12:46:09Z

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Well, you need to filter out the youtube links first and put them into an array. Next you need to find out the video id of the url which is very easy. Use this script:

function getIDfromURL() {
var video_url = document.getElementById('url').value;
var video_id = video_url.split('v=')[1];
var ampersandPosition = video_id.indexOf('&');
if (ampersandPosition != -1) { video_id = video_id.substring(0, ampersandPosition); }
document.getElementById('url').value=video_id;
}

You can of course use a PHP function as well, but I just used JS here to get the id from the URL. Maybe that helped anyways ;)

With the video id you can embed the video ;)

answered Sep 27, 2013 at 12:46

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Michael Giovanni Pumo · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-27 12:57:27Z

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If the string is from user input, or in any way unpredictable, then forget using RegEx...seriously. It will open a can of worms for you.

Instead, try to look into using a HTML parser to extract the URL's based on certain rules and selectors.

I mainly use ColdFsuion / Java and JSoup is amazing for this kind of thing, with a whole lot more ease and security too.

http://jsoup.org/

It seems, in PHP, you could use something like this:

http://code.google.com/p/phpquery/

I'd love to give a code sample, but I don't know PHP well enough. But give it a go.

Mikey.

answered Sep 27, 2013 at 12:57

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HenryW Over a year ago

would

$purifier->purify(preg_replace("/\s*[a-zA-Z\/\/:\.]*youtube.com\/watch\?v=([a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+)([a-zA-Z0-9\/\*\-\_\?\&\;\%\=\.]*)/i","<iframe width=\"315\" height=\"210\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/$1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>",$chat_info['text']));

be sufficient?

Leffa · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-27 23:06:06Z

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Try this too:

$text = "is here the text to replace"; 

 function replace_iframe($id_video) {
    return '<iframe height="315"  width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/'.$id_video[1].'" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>';
 }

echo preg_replace_callback("/\s*[a-zA-Z\/\/:\.]*(?:youtube\.com|youtu\.be)\/(?:watch\?v=)?([a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+)([a-zA-Z0-9\/\*\-\_\?\&\;\%\=\.]*)/i", 'replace_iframe', $text);

answered Sep 27, 2021 at 23:06

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pgrono · Accepted Answer · 2023-04-08 15:57:14Z

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function convertYoutubeLinkToEmbed($text) {
    $pattern = '#https?://(?:www\.)?(?:youtube\.com/watch\?v=|youtu\.be/)([\w-]+)#i';
    $replacement = '<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/$1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>';
    
    return preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $text);
}


$text = 'Check this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GfCP5CWHO0';
$embedText = convertYoutubeLinkToEmbed($text);

echo $embedText;

answered Apr 8, 2023 at 15:57

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