How to validate a youtube playlist url using regex?
I've found the answer for validating video from other question..
/^http:\/\/(?:www\.)?youtube.com\/watch\?(?=.*v=\w+)(?:\S+)?$/
But I've just unable to validate a url like this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL1F9CA2A03CF286C2&v=pFS4zYWxzNA&
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFS4zYWxzNA&list=PL1F9CA2A03CF286C2&
I ended up with a something similar but different:
/^.*(youtu.be\/|list=)([^#\&\?]*).*/
worked against the following urls:
Given the follow code:
var regExp = /^.*(youtu.be\/|list=)([^#\&\?]*).*/;
var match = url.match(regExp);
if (match && match[2]){
return match[2];
}
return null;
My return is PLBOh8f9FoHHjOz0vGrD20WcTtJar-LOrw
try this
^(https|http):\/\/(?:www\.)?youtube\.com\/watch\? #you forgot to mask the dot before com
( #may lead to wrong parsing
(v=.*&list=.*)| #v and then list
(list=.*&v=.*) #or versa verse - feel free to use better matching
) #for ids like "pFS4zYWxzNA"
(&.*)*$ #all other kinds of parameter
Edit: i improved the matching
^(https|http):\/\/(?:www\.)?youtube\.com\/watch\?
(?:&.*)* #extra params at the beginning
(
(?:
v=([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]{11}) #propper mathing for id
(?:&.*)* #extras
&list=([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]{18}) #list
)
|
(?:
list=([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]{18})
(?:&.*)* #versa
&v=([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]{11})
)
)
(?:&.*)* #extras at the end
(?:\#.*)*$ #anchors
.* at the end of each alternative matches everything up to the end of the string. Also, the use of the dot is inappropriate because it matches whitespace which is not valid in any URL. To improve this, I would replace all dot-stars with: [^&\s]* Otherwise, nice job.
/^http:\/\/(?:www\.)?youtube\.com\/watch\?((v=[^&\s]*&list=[^&\s]*)|(list=[^&\s]*&v=[^&\s]*))(&[^&\s]*)*$/
&feature=list_related&playnext=1, also see editFirst validate YouTube url:
^https?\:\/\/(?:www\.youtube(?:\-nocookie)?\.com\/|m\.youtube\.com\/|youtube\.com\/)?(?:ytscreeningroom\?vi?=|youtu\.be\/|vi?\/|user\/.+\/u\/\w{1,2}\/|embed\/|watch\?(?:.*\&)?vi?=|\&vi?=|\?(?:.*\&)?vi?=)([^#\&\?\n\/<>\"']*)
then find the list:
[\?|&](list=)(.*)\&
I ended up with a something similar but different:
/[?&]list=([^#?&]*)/
worked against the following urls:
Given the follow code:
const listID = url.match(/[?&]list=([^#?&]*)/)?.[1];
console.log(listID);
My return is PLC18xlbCdwtTc61wuDviNoKmNUAVFT50D
