Check if a URL is a YouTube video

Question

How can I check if a given URL points to a valid YouTube video?

check this link , this works :http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28735459/how-to-validate-youtube-url-in-client-side-in-text-box — srikanth chitturi, Jan 10 '17 at 11:33

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 19 '12 at 17:08

Match it with a regular expression.

if($parsed[0].match(/youtube\.com/) {
    // affirmative
} else {
    // negative
}

I'm calling match() on the first element of $parsed, but your "domain" portion could very well be the 3rd element if your URL string started with "http://".

There's probably a more rock-solid regex you could use there, but that'll evaluate as true if string contains the youtube.com domain.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 30 '13 at 13:58

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The below function will return true or false on passing url:

function matchYoutubeUrl(url){
var p = /^(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?    (?:youtu\.be\/|youtube\.com\/(?:embed\/|v\/|watch\?v=|watch\?.+&v=))((\w|-){11})(?:\S+)?$/;
 return (url.match(p)) ? true : false ;
}

answered Sep 30 '13 at 13:58

atul singh

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i know this is old but it doesn't work for me, it returns false even if the URL is true – Fanckush Jan 25 '15 at 14:41

Check if a URL is a YouTube video

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