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This page is designed to extract the video ID from a YouTube video URL. I have used a simple JavaScript regular expression to match the pattern and extract the video ID from the string. The JavaScript regular expression code is provided below, /[?=/]([A-Za-z0-9_-]{10}[AEIMQUYcgkosw048])[?=/]*?/g Live demonstration: YouTube Video ID Grabber Enter the YouTube URL Regular Expression Explanation [ Character set. Match any character in the set. ? Character. Matches a "?" character (char code 63). = Character. Matches a "=" character (char code 61). / Character. Matches a "/" character (char code 47). ] ( Capturing group #1. Groups multiple tokens together and creates a capture grou...

This is a simple and valuable tip for YouTube video uploaders to share the internal and external URLs in the video description. While entering the URLs in the video description, we must type the whole URL. For example, https://www.biob.in ( Not www.biob.in or biob.in ). Moreover, for YouTube channel names/handles, it must be with full URL (including valid handle name prefix by @). For example, https://youtube.com/@AKBIT ( Not /@AKBIT or @AKBIT ). YouTube automatically parses the URLs and replaces the YouTube URLs with a YouTube icon. Instead, the handle name can be hyperlinked by typing the at the rate of symbol ( @ ) followed by the handle name @AKBIT . Meanwhile, you have to select the exact handle from the dropdown list box. YouTube Video Description A sample YouTube video description with URLs are below, A simple video tutorial to convert chemical structures in the image to a 3D molecule using online OSRA (Optical Structure Recognition Application) tool. The resour...