youtubeID.js

/**
* Get YouTube ID from various YouTube URL
* @author: takien
* @url: http://takien.com
* For PHP YouTube parser, go here http://takien.com/864
*/

function getYouTubeGetID(url){
  var ID = '';
  url = url.replace(/(>|<)/gi,'').split(/(vi\/|v=|\/v\/|youtu\.be\/|\/embed\/)/);
  if(url[2] !== undefined) {
    ID = url[2].split(/[^0-9a-z_]/i);
    ID = ID[0];
  }
  else {
    ID = url;
  }

  if (!_.isArray(ID)) {
    return ID
  } else {
    return false;
  }
}


/*
* Tested URLs:

var url = 'http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/4e_kz79tjb8?version=3';
url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=g-vrec&v=Y1xs_xPb46M';
url = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ab25nviakcw#';
url = 'http://youtu.be/Ab25nviakcw';
url = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab25nviakcw';
url = '<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ab25nviakcw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>';
url = '<object width="420" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/Ab25nviakcw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/Ab25nviakcw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>';
url = 'http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/Ab25nviakcw/default.jpg';
url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGL22PTIOAM&feature=g-all-xit';
url = 'BGL22PTIOAM';
*/

I needed this to return falsy if we weren't very positive the string being returned was actually an ID.

ie. Directly entering an ID will return false, so i'll need to figure some way around that.