Fetch YouTube Video Id from youtube URL in zend framework

Question

This is my youtube tube URL which is coming from facebook Id. I have fetch this url using FQL Query in facebook in Zend Framework

This is my url = "http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=AbE6fYtNaa4&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DNbyHNASFi6U%26feature%3Dshare"

Now I need to fetch its ID so that I can pass it to this code so that i can generate its vidoe details.

function listYoutubeVideo($id) {
    $video = array();

    try {   
        $yt = new Zend_Gdata_YouTube();

        $videoEntry = $yt->getVideoEntry($id);



        $videoEntry = $yt->getQueryUrl($id);


            $videoThumbnails = $videoEntry->getVideoThumbnails();
            $video = array(
                'thumbnail' => $videoThumbnails[0]['url'],
                'title' => $videoEntry->getVideoTitle(),
                'description' => $videoEntry->getVideoDescription(),
                'tags' => implode(', ', $videoEntry->getVideoTags()),
                'url' => $videoEntry->getVideoWatchPageUrl(),
                'flash' => $videoEntry->getFlashPlayerUrl(),
                'dura' => $videoEntry->getVideoDuration(),
                'id' => $videoEntry->getVideoId()
            );

    } catch (Exception $e) {

        echo $e->getMessage();
        exit();

    }


    return $video;
}

So I just need to find its youtube ID from youtube URL in Zend Framework. Plz provide me solutions. Is there any method exist in "Zend_Gdata_YouTube" class from where i can get its ID form passing its youtube URL

Answer 1

You have unique video ID. In your case (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbyHNASFi6U&feature=share) ID equals NbyHNASFi6U.

$url = 'http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=AbE6fYtNaa4&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DNbyHNASFi6U%26feature%3Dshare';
$url = urldecode($url);
$query_string = end(explode('?',$url));
parse_str($query_string);
$videoID = $v;
print $videoID;
// OUTPUT
NbyHNASFi6U

The video watch page URL always has this format:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXXXXXXX

where XXXXXXXXXXX is a unique video ID consisting of 11 letters and numbers (and, if memory serves, hyphens and underscores).