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Youtube/Vimeo URL matching patterns.
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This pattern aims to match (testing only) all Youtube's and Vimeo's URL variants.

^(?:https?:)?(?:(?:\/\/(?:(?:www\.)?(?:youtube\.com)|youtu\.be)\/.*?(?:watch\?v=|embed\/)?)?(?:[\w-]{11}(?![\w-]))|(?:\/\/vimeo\.com\/)?[\d]{9}(?![\w])).*$

This pattern matches Youtube only URLs:

^((https?:)?(?:(?:\/\/((?:www\.)?youtube\.com|youtu\.be)\/.*?(?:watch\?v=|embed\/)?)))?([\w-]{11})

  • group 2: stores the protocol
  • group 3: stores the domain
  • group 4: stores the video ID
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