YouTubeIdentifier

YouTubeIdentifier provides information about any valid YouTube URL.

  • It can figure out the video ID of a YouTube URL.
  • It can build a canonical YouTube URL based on any other YouTube URL or just the video ID.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'youtube_identifier'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install youtube_identifier

Usage

url = 'www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OLQnKr_sh8'
YouTubeIdentifier::Identifier.new(url).valid? # => true
YouTubeIdentifier::Identifier.new(url).id # => '7OLQnKr_sh8'
YouTubeIdentifier::Identifier.new(url).canonical_url # => 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OLQnKr_sh8'

url = 'http://google.com'
YouTubeIdentifier::Identifier.new(url).valid? # => false
YouTubeIdentifier::Identifier.new(url).id # => YouTubeIdentifier::InvalidURLError
YouTubeIdentifier::Identifier.new(url).canonical_url # => YouTubeIdentifier::InvalidURLError

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request