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Grab YouTube video ID and thumbnail

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This script will grab the YouTube video ID using regex so that many different types of YouTube urls. This will also output the id and thumbnail to view.

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  1. HTML:
  2. <div><strong>Insert YouTube url:</strong></div>
  3. <input type="text" id="ytlink" onkeyup="youtube_parser(this.value)">
  4.     <hr>
  5.     <div><strong>Output: YouTube video id:</strong></div>
  6.     <input type="text" id="ytimagelink" value="">
  7.         <div><strong>Output: Thumbnail</strong></div>
  8.         <div id="ytimage"></div>
  9.  
  10. JAVASCRIPT:
  11. <script>
  12. function youtube_parser(url) {
  13.     var regExp = /.*(?:youtu.be\/|v\/|u\/\w\/|embed\/|watch\?v=)([^#\&\?]*).*/;
  14.     var match = url.match(regExp);
  15.     if (match && match[1].length == 11) {
  16.         urllink = match[1];
  17.         imagelink = "<img src=\"http:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/"+urllink+"\/hqdefault.jpg\">";
  18.     } else {
  19.         //urllink = "test"
  20.     }
  21.     document.getElementById("ytimagelink").value = urllink;
  22.     document.getElementById("ytimage").innerHTML = imagelink;       
  23. }
  24. </script>

URL: http://jsfiddle.net/PMrLR/7/

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