[PHP] How To Parse Youtube URL to Get Video ID, Thumbnail Image, or Embed Code

Hello, sometime we need to parse Youtube URL to get video ID, thumbnail image, or embed code automatically with PHP. To do so, I have created a function parse_youtube_url();
With this function we can:
- Get video ID
- Get Embed code
- Get Thumbnail or HQ Thumbnail URL
Check this out:

Parse Youtube URL Function


<?php /**
 *  parse_youtube_url() PHP function
 *  Author: takien
 *  URL: http://takien.com
 * 
 *  @param  string  $url    URL to be parsed, eg: 
 *                            http://youtu.be/zc0s358b3Ys, 
 *                            http://www.youtube.com/embed/zc0s358b3Ys
 *                            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc0s358b3Ys
 *  @param  string  $return what to return
 *                            - embed, return embed code
 *                            - thumb, return URL to thumbnail image
 *                            - hqthumb, return URL to high quality thumbnail image.
 *  @param  string     $width  width of embeded video, default 560
 *  @param  string  $height height of embeded video, default 349
 *  @param  string  $rel    whether embeded video to show related video after play or not.

 */ 
 
 function parse_youtube_url($url,$return='embed',$width='',$height='',$rel=0){
    $urls = parse_url($url);
    
    //expect url is http://youtu.be/abcd, where abcd is video iD
    if($urls['host'] == 'youtu.be'){ 
        $id = ltrim($urls['path'],'/');
    }
    //expect  url is http://www.youtube.com/embed/abcd
    else if(strpos($urls['path'],'embed') == 1){ 
        $id = end(explode('/',$urls['path']));
    }
     //expect url is abcd only
    else if(strpos($url,'/')===false){
        $id = $url;
    }
    //expect url is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abcd
    else{
        parse_str($urls['query']);
        $id = $v;
    }
    //return embed iframe
    if($return == 'embed'){
        return '<iframe width="'.($width?$width:560).'" height="'.($height?$height:349).'" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/'.$id.'?rel='.$rel.'" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>';
    }
    //return normal thumb
    else if($return == 'thumb'){
        return 'http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/'.$id.'/default.jpg';
    }
    //return hqthumb
    else if($return == 'hqthumb'){
        return 'http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/'.$id.'/hqdefault.jpg';
    }
    // else return id
    else{
        return $id;
    }
} ?>


Example usage


<?php echo parse_youtube_url('http://youtu.be/zc0s358b3Ys','hqthumb'); //return http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/zc0s358b3Ys/hqdefault.jpg echo parse_youtube_url('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc0s358b3Ys','embed'); //return embed code (iframe) ?>


(http://takien.com/864/php-how-to-parse-youtube-url-to-get-video-id-thumbnail-image-or-embed-code.php)