Helper to read in YouTube urls and parse the video id and generate the youtube embed HTML cod
Helper to read in YouTube urls and parse the video id and generate the youtube embed HTML code
This is based on gem https://github.com/datwright/youtube_addy by David Wright (Discontinued). Thanks so much
Author: Luiz Picolo
gem install youtube_rails`
or add in your gemfile
gem 'youtube_rails'
YouTubeRails.extract_video_id("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwmtNk_Yb2Q")
=> "XwmtNk_Yb2Q"
YouTubeRails.extract_video_id("https://youtu.be/cD4TAgdS_Xw")
=> "cD4TAgdS_Xw"
YouTubeRails.extract_video_id("http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SahhfqNkHFU")
=> "SahhfqNkHFU"
YouTubeRails.extract_video_id("http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cd4g33ijd<script>this_should_not_be_here</scipt>")
=> nil
YouTubeRails.youtube_embed_url("http://youtu.be/cD4TAgdS_Xw", 420, 315)
=> '<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cD4TAgdS_Xw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>'
YouTubeRails.youtube_embed_url_only("http://youtu.be/cD4TAgdS_Xw")
=> 'http://www.youtube.com/embed/cD4TAgdS_Xw'
YouTubeRails.extract_video_image("https://youtu.be/cD4TAgdS_Xw")
=> "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cD4TAgdS_Xw/hqdefault.jpg"
# Params: default, medium, high, maximum
YouTubeRails.extract_video_image("https://youtu.be/cD4TAgdS_Xw", 'high')
=> "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cD4TAgdS_Xw/mqdefault.jpg"
Final videos suggestion: disable_suggestion: true
( default is false )
YouTubeRails.youtube_embed_url("http://youtu.be/cD4TAgdS_Xw", 420, 315, disable_suggestion: true)
=> '<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cD4TAgdS_Xw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>'
With ssl: ssl: true
( default is false )
YouTubeRails.youtube_embed_url("http://youtu.be/cD4TAgdS_Xw", 420, 315, ssl: true)
=> '<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cD4TAgdS_Xw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>'