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How can I extract video ID from YouTube's link in Python?

I know this can be easily done using PHP's parse_url and parse_str functions:

$subject = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_AbfPXTKms&NR=1";
$url = parse_url($subject);
parse_str($url['query'], $query);
var_dump($query);

But how to achieve this using Python? I can do urlparse but what next?

Solution

  • Python has a library for parsing URLs.

    import urlparse
url_data = urlparse.urlparse("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_AbfPXTKms&NR=1")
query = urlparse.parse_qs(url_data.query)
video = query["v"][0]