How to parse YouTube video URL using preg_match in PHP

This regex grabs the ID from all of the various URLs I could find... There may be more out there, but I couldn't find reference of them anywhere.

if (preg_match('%(?:youtube(?:-nocookie)?\.com/(?:[^/]+/.+/|(?:v|e(?:mbed)?)/|.*[?&]v=)|youtu\.be/)([^"&?/ ]{11})%i', $url, $match)) {
    $video_id = $match[1];
}

Here is a sample of the URLs this regex matches: (there can be more content after the given URL that will be ignored)

• http://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ ...
• http://www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ ...
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ ...
• http://www.youtube.com/?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ ...
• http://www.youtube.com/v/dQw4w9WgXcQ ...
• http://www.youtube.com/e/dQw4w9WgXcQ ...
• http://www.youtube.com/user/username#p/u/11/dQw4w9WgXcQ ...
• http://www.youtube.com/sandalsResorts#p/c/54B8C800269D7C1B/0/dQw4w9WgXcQ ...
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dQw4w9WgXcQ ...
• http://www.youtube.com/?feature=player_embedded&v=dQw4w9WgXcQ ...

It also works on the youtube-nocookie.com URL with the same above options.

It will also pull the ID from the URL in an embed code (both iframe and object tags)

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