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How to extract the video ID in Javascript?

Given a YouTube URL, extract the video ID and return it as a string.

JavaScript
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Mohammad Qandeel
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This can be done by filtering the YouTube URL and searching for the value of the "v" variable, which contains the unique ID

function youtubeId(link) {
 var p = link.indexOf('?');
 if (p != -1) {
  var a = link.substr(p+1).split('&');
  for (var i in a) {
   var b = a[i].split('=');
   if (b[0] == 'v') return b[1];
  }
 }
  return link.substr(link.lastIndexOf('/')+1);
}

Example

youtubeId('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoutubeVid') // "YoutubeVid"

 

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