Any preg_match to check if the url is for youtube / vimeo / dailymotion?

Question

What is the best preg_match syntax to check if the url is a youtube / vimeo / or dailymotion video image?

perhaps if it’s complicated, then just to check the domain name.

thanks

Answer 1

I would not use preg_match() for this. I think parse_url () is probably the best choice. You can pass it a string of URLs and it will be broken down into all subcomponents for you.

I don’t know how the specific video URLs look for the sites you talked about, but I'm sure you could find some identification criteria for each of them that you could use with the results of parse_url() for identification, As an example, what a YouTube link breakdown looks like:

 $res = parse_url("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw"); print_r($res); /* outputs: Array ( [scheme] => http [host] => www.youtube.com [path] => /watch [query] => v=Sv5iEK-IEzw ) */ 

You can probably determine it based on the hostname and path in this case.

Answer 2

$location = 'your url';

 if(preg_match('/http:\/\/www\.youtube\.com\/watch\?v=[^&]+/', $location, $vresult)) { $type= 'youtube'; } elseif(preg_match('/http:\/\/(.*?)blip\.tv\/file\/[0-9]+/', $location, $vresult)) { $type= 'bliptv'; } elseif(preg_match('/http:\/\/(.*?)break\.com\/(.*?)\/(.*?)\.html/', $location, $vresult)) { $type= 'break'; } elseif(preg_match('/http:\/\/www\.metacafe\.com\/watch\/(.*?)\/(.*?)\//', $location, $vresult)) { $type= 'metacafe'; } elseif(preg_match('/http:\/\/video\.google\.com\/videoplay\?docid=[^&]+/', $location, $vresult)) { $type= 'google'; } elseif(preg_match('/http:\/\/www\.dailymotion\.com\/video\/+/', $location, $vresult)) { $type= 'dailymotion'; } 

Answer 3

 if (preg_match ("/\b(?:vimeo|youtube|dailymotion)\.com\b/i", $url)) { echo "It a video"; } 

Answer 4

I don’t know how you will get this URL, but you can check the “watch” and not just at www.youtube.com (since youtube video links usually have a way to watch?).

 $res = parse_url("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw"); if ( preg_match( "/\/watch/" , $res["path"] ) ){ echo "found video\n "; }