YouTube video ID extractor (in JavaScript regex)

I thought I'd let you all know that I created a JavaScript YouTube video ID extractor. It uses the built in regular expressions to get it.

You can see a proof of concept here.

The relevant function is below:

function youtubeIDextract(url)
[
var youtube_id;
youtube_id = url.replace(/^[^v]+v.(.[11]).*/,"$1");
return youtube_id;
]

I figured you'd want to incorporate this into ATS.

Note that it works with all of the following YouTube URLs:
youtube.com...
www.youtube.com...
youtube.com...

Also, if an ID is already there, it doesn't get mangled.

Please test it to see if there are any corner cases I might have missed.

I'm going to work on something similar for Google Video. I'll start another thread here once I'm finished.

Thanks. This will make embedding videos much easier.

Appreciate what you've done.

Originally posted by DJMessiah
Thanks. This will make embedding videos much easier.

Appreciate what you've done.

Thanks for the complement. Much appreciated.

good job !
Scripts and other work gets very unappreciated, just wanted to say that.