preg_match - Youtube ID

[CalebMingle]

Well I am attempting to grab all the ID's of videos in a search on YouTube.

I absolutely suck at patterns and regex, so I need a bit of help.

<?php
include "config.php";
require_once CLASSES . "core.php";;
require_once CLASSES . "youtube.php";

$core = new core();
$yt = new youtube();

// Time to get the URL's //

$url = "http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fall+out+boy";

$page = file_get_contents($url);

preg_match("/watch?v=([^*]+)/i", $page, $matches);

print_r($matches);


?>

I need some help in getting all the ID's off of that page.

Can anyone help?

[Kadence]

You need to use preg_match_all(), escape the question mark, and specify what it ends with. Also better to note that it starts with /.

preg_match_all("/\/watch\?v=(.*?)\"/i", $page, $matches);
$id_array = $matches[1];
print_r($id_array); 

[CalebMingle]

Thanks Although I figured it out without using preg.

Thanks =]

[Kadence]

Actually this is better, because there might be additional parameters in the URL.

preg_match_all("/\/watch\?v=(.*?)[&\"]/i", $page, $matches); 

[php_daemon]

Might wanna use their API and parse the feed with simplexml: http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/...ing_for_Videos