Helper to read in YouTube urls and parse the video id and generate the youtube embed HTML code
This is based on gem https://github.com/datwright/youtube_addy by David Wright (Discontinued). Thanks so much
Author: Luiz Picolo
gem install youtube_rails`
or add in your gemfile
gem 'youtube_rails'YouTubeRails.extract_video_id("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwmtNk_Yb2Q")
=> "XwmtNk_Yb2Q"YouTubeRails.extract_video_id("https://youtu.be/cD4TAgdS_Xw")
=> "cD4TAgdS_Xw"YouTubeRails.extract_video_id("http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SahhfqNkHFU")
=> "SahhfqNkHFU"YouTubeRails.extract_video_id("http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cd4g33ijd<script>this_should_not_be_here</scipt>")
=> nilYouTubeRails.youtube_embed_url("http://youtu.be/cD4TAgdS_Xw", 420, 315)
=> '<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cD4TAgdS_Xw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>'YouTubeRails.youtube_embed_url_only("http://youtu.be/cD4TAgdS_Xw")
=> 'http://www.youtube.com/embed/cD4TAgdS_Xw'YouTubeRails.extract_video_image("https://youtu.be/cD4TAgdS_Xw")
=> "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cD4TAgdS_Xw/hqdefault.jpg"# Params: default, medium, high, maximum
YouTubeRails.extract_video_image("https://youtu.be/cD4TAgdS_Xw", 'high')
=> "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cD4TAgdS_Xw/mqdefault.jpg"Final videos suggestion: disable_suggestion: true ( default is false )
YouTubeRails.youtube_embed_url("http://youtu.be/cD4TAgdS_Xw", 420, 315, disable_suggestion: true)
=> '<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cD4TAgdS_Xw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>'With ssl: ssl: true ( default is false )
YouTubeRails.youtube_embed_url("http://youtu.be/cD4TAgdS_Xw", 420, 315, ssl: true)
=> '<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cD4TAgdS_Xw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>'