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php - Validating Youtube URL using Regex

I'm trying to validate YouTube URLs for my application.

So far I have the following:

// Set the youtube URL
$youtube_url = "www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpfzjcCzdtCk";

if (preg_match("/((http://){0,}(www.){0,}(youtube.com){1} || (youtu.be){1}(/watch?v=[^s]){1})/", $youtube_url) == 1)
{
    echo "Valid";
else
{
    echo "Invalid";
}

I wish to validate the following variations of Youtube Urls:

  • With and without http://
  • With and without www.
  • With the URLs youtube.com and youtu.be
  • Must have /watch?v=
  • Must have the unique video string (In the example above "vpfzjcCzdtCk")

However, I don't think I've got my logic right, because for some reason it returns true for: www.youtube.co/watch?v=vpfzjcCzdtCk (Notice I've written it incorrectly with .co and not .com)

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There are a lot of redundancies in this regular expression of yours (and also, the leaning toothpick syndrome). This, though, should produce results:

$rx = '~
  ^(?:https?://)?                           # Optional protocol
   (?:www[.])?                              # Optional sub-domain
   (?:youtube[.]com/watch[?]v=|youtu[.]be/) # Mandatory domain name (w/ query string in .com)
   ([^&]{11})                               # Video id of 11 characters as capture group 1
    ~x';

$has_match = preg_match($rx, $url, $matches);

// if matching succeeded, $matches[1] would contain the video ID

Some notes:

  • use the tilde character ~ as delimiter, to avoid LTS
  • use [.] instead of . to improve visual legibility and avoid LTS. ("Special" characters - such as the dot . - have no effect in character classes (within square brackets))
  • to make regular expressions more "readable" you can use the x modifier (which has further implications; see the docs on Pattern modifiers), which also allows for comments in regular expressions
  • capturing can be suppressed using non-capturing groups: (?: <pattern> ). This makes the expression more efficient.

Optionally, to extract values from a (more or less complete) URL, you might want to make use of parse_url():

$url = 'http://youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEOID';
$parts = parse_url($url);
print_r($parts);

Output:

Array
(
    [scheme] => http
    [host] => youtube.com
    [path] => /watch
    [query] => v=VIDEOID
)

Validating the domain name and extracting the video ID is left as an exercise to the reader.


I gave in to the comment war below; thanks to Toni Oriol, the regular expression now works on short (youtu.be) URLs as well.


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