Youtube Rails

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

INSTALL

gem install youtube_rails`

or add in your gemfile

gem 'youtube_rails'

How to use

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"

Options

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>'