Easy YouTube is a gem designed to simplify some common methods surrounding parsing youtube urls and id's.
Add in your gemfile
gem 'easy_youtube'
or download and install Easy YouTube with the following.
gem install easy_youtube
Easy Youtube is a relatively simple gem which can be easily understood by reading the source code but here are some useful examples:
You can feed in any youtube url and extract the video id
EasyYouTube.extract_video_id("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L57s0Q2qgYg") => "L57s0Q2qgYg"
EasyYouTube.extract_video_id("http://youtu.be/L57s0Q2qgYg") => "L57s0Q2qgYg"
Check if a video id or a url is valid
EasyYouTube.valid_youtube_url?("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L57s02qgYg") => true
EasyYouTube.valid_youtube_url?("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L57s0#2qgYg") => false
EasyYouTube.EasyYouTube.valid_id?('L57s0Q2qgYg') => true
EasyYouTube.EasyYouTube.valid_id?('notvalid') => false
Return thumb video
EasyYouTube.thumb_video("https://youtu.be/cD4TAgdS_Xw") => "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cD4TAgdS_Xw/hqdefault.jpg"
And convert urls and video ids into different types of videos
EasyYouTube.youtube_shortened_url("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L57s0Q2qgYg") => "http://youtu.be/L57s0Q2qgYg"
EasyYouTube.create_regular_url("L57s0Q2qgYg") => "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L57s0Q2qgYg"
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