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2009 Sep 6 • 2547
10 ₧

So, basically how can I find out if a link is a video or not? Cause youtube doesn't have the normal .avi, .mp4eg, .badmovie extensions. So like how would I do that?

(with PHP)

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2011 Mar 17 at 03:06 UTC — Ed. 2011 Mar 17 at 03:06 UTC

the_cloud_system
polly pushy pants

2008 Aug 1 • 3081
-6 ₧

WOOOOPS im not helping >_>

I drink to forget but I always remember.

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2011 Mar 17 at 03:18 UTC — Ed. 2011 Mar 17 at 03:18 UTC

SRAW
Rocket Man

2007 Nov 6 • 2525
601 ₧

WOOOPS IM NOT HALPING

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2011 Mar 17 at 06:36 UTC

the_cloud_system
polly pushy pants

2008 Aug 1 • 3081
-6 ₧

SRAW said:

WOOOPS IM NOT HALPING

I drink to forget but I always remember.

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2011 Mar 17 at 07:06 UTC

SRAW
Rocket Man

2007 Nov 6 • 2525
601 ₧

What about your post above mine?

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2011 Mar 17 at 09:29 UTC

SuperJer
Websiteman

2005 Mar 21 • 6666

sprinkles said:

So, basically how can I find out if a link is a video or not? Cause youtube doesn't have the normal .avi, .mp4eg, .badmovie extensions. So like how would I do that?

(with PHP)

You can try doing a HTTP HEAD request on the link, and then checking the Content-Type.

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2011 Mar 17 at 19:35 UTC

sprinkles

2009 Sep 6 • 2547
10 ₧

Is that what superjer.com uses? Cause I'm getting text/html.

Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 )

I guess all youtube videos have this:

  code
watch?v=

So I'll use regex to find that, then embed the video into an object or whatever.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/412467/how-to-embed-youtube-videos-in-php

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2011 Mar 17 at 23:19 UTC — Ed. 2011 Mar 17 at 23:28 UTC

SuperJer
Websiteman

2005 Mar 21 • 6666

Oh well you're trying to check if the link is a page with a video.

In that case you need to search the content for a <embed> or <object> with video-y stuff in it. But really there's no way to be completely sure.

If you're targeting YouTube then the watch?v= thing is fine.

When you post a TouYube on here, the forum code looks for the BifRBx92S9I garbage and then wraps it in some embed code. So everything from links, to page source should work.

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2011 Mar 18 at 01:40 UTC

sprinkles

2009 Sep 6 • 2547
10 ₧

Any ideas on how to get the height?

(and width)

So you take that stuff after 'watch?v=,' throw it behind 'youtube.com/v/,' and you're done!

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2011 Mar 18 at 02:06 UTC — Ed. 2011 Mar 18 at 02:11 UTC

SuperJer
Websiteman

2005 Mar 21 • 6666

You can choose from multiple different sizes when embedding YouTube videos. Check the options on YouTube.

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2011 Mar 18 at 02:17 UTC

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