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Reference for youtube_dl_scraper/utils/extract_video_id.py

youtube_dl_scraper.utils.extract_video_id.extract_video_id 

extract_video_id(url: str) -> Optional[str]

Extracts video id from toutube video url

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
url str

Youtube URL to extract video id from.

 required

Returns: Optional[str]: Extracted video id or None if URL is invalid.

Source code in youtube_dl_scraper/utils/extract_video_id.py 
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def extract_video_id(url: str) -> Optional[str]:
    """
    Extracts video id from toutube video url

    Args:
        url (str): Youtube URL to extract video id from.
    Returns:
        Optional[str]: Extracted video id or None if URL is invalid.
    """
    parsed_url = urlparse(url)
    if parsed_url.hostname in ["www.youtube.com", "youtube.com"]:
        if "/shorts/" in parsed_url.path:
            return parsed_url.path.split("/shorts/")[1]
        query = parse_qs(parsed_url.query)
        return query.get("v", [None])[0]
    elif parsed_url.hostname == "youtu.be":
        return parsed_url.path.lstrip("/")
    return None