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Find youtube channel ID with regex in javascript
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| const fetch = require('node-fetch'); | |
| const regex = /<link rel="canonical" href="(https?:\/\/)?(www\.)?youtube\.com\/(channel|user)\/[\w-]+">/g | |
| fetch('https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa10nxShhzNrCE1o2ZOPztg') | |
| .then(res => res.text()) | |
| .then(body => console.log(body.match(regex)[0].split(" ")[2].replace('href=\"', '').replace('\">', '').split("/")[4])) | |
| // Expected output: | |
| // UCa10nxShhzNrCE1o2ZOPztg |
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