get-video-id

Get the YouTube, Vimeo, Vine or VideoPress video id from a url or embed string.

This module will extract the YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, or VideoPress Video ID from any known YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, or VideoPress url patterns, including embed strings.

Pull Requests are welcome if you would like to see support for other video services or if you find an unsupported video url pattern.

Version 2.0

Version 2.0 introduces a new API that can handle a wider variety of use cases. The main difference is that the new API returns a metadata object instead of a string. The old API would simply return the video id:

Version 1.1.0:

getVideoId('https://vimeo.com/1234');
//=> '1234'

Version 2.0 returns an object with the id, as well as the service provider:

getVideoId('https://vimeo.com/1234');
//=> { id: '1234', service: 'vimeo'}

Install

$ npm install --save get-video-id

Usage

Simply supply the module with any known YouTube, Vimeo or Vine url (or embed string) and it's metadata (id and service) will be extracted:

const getVideoId = require('get-video-id');

getVideoId('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rSH8-pbHZ0');
//=> { id: '8rSH8-pbHZ0', service: 'youtube' }

getVideoId('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rSH8-pbHZ0').id;
//=> '8rSH8-pbHZ0'

You can also use Google redirection URL (link from the search list) with YouTube, Vimeo or Vine as target url.

getVideoId('https://www.google.cz/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwj30L2MvpDVAhUFZVAKHb8CBaYQuAIIIjAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DeG1uDU0rSLw&usg=AFQjCNECyDn3DQL7U6VW2CnXQQjB0gNKqA');
//=> { id: 'eG1uDU0rSLw', service: 'youtube' }

API

getVideoId(input)

Returns a metadata object with the video id and service name:

{
  id: 'String',
  service: 'String'
}

input

Type: string

The YouTube, Vimeo, or Vine url (or embed code) from which you want to find the video id. See the Patterns section to see the formats that can be supplied.

Patterns

This module works on the url / embed patterns below. (where * is the id and ? or & are parameter strings):

YouTube Shortcodes

http://youtu.be/*?
https://youtu.be/*
http://youtu.be/*
youtube://

YouTube /v/ or /vi/

http://www.youtube.com/v/*
http://youtube.com/vi/*?
http://youtube.com/v/*?

YouTube v= or vi=

http://www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom?v=*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=*?&
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=*
http://youtube.com/watch?vi=*&
http://youtube.com/?vi=*&
http://youtube.com/?v=*

YouTube image links /vi/*/ or /an_webp/*/

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/*/hqdefault.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/an_webp/MYDcdp-VNmQ/mqdefault_6s.webp

YouTube embed

http://www.youtube.com/embed/*?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/*

YouTube user

http://www.youtube.com/user/username#p/a/u/2/*
http://www.youtube.com/user/username#p/u/1/*?
http://www.youtube.com/user/username#p/u/1/*

YouTube iframe

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/*" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

YouTube -nocookie

www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/*?

YouTube Attribution Link

http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D*%26
http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D
http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?u=/watch?v=*&
http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?u=/watch?v=*
http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?/watch?v=*

Vimeo urls

https://vimeo.com/*
https://vimeo.com/*?
https://player.vimeo.com/video/*
https://player.vimeo.com/video/*?
https://www.vimeo.com/*
https://www.vimeo.com/*?

Vimeo iframe

<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/*" ...

Vine urls

https://vine.co/v/*

Vine iframe

<iframe src="https://vine.co/v/*/embed/simple" width="600" height="600" frameborder="0"></iframe>
<iframe src="https://vine.co/v/*/embed/postcard" width="600" height="600" frameborder="0"></iframe>

VideoPress urls

https://videopress.com/v/*
https://videopress.com/embed/*

VideoPress iframes

<iframe src="https://videopress.com/embed/zcnJVzQF" width="600" height="600"></iframe>

Google redirection url

https://google.cz/url?source=web&url=*
https://google.com/image?url=*

Contributing

If you discover a url pattern that is not covered by this module, please open an issue to report it, or submit a Pull Request. For any submitted pull requests, please ensure that you include a unit test to fully cover your code contributions.

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