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Get YouTube Key from a Link

// Example link:
// <a id="myLink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyRqR56aCKc&feature=PlayList&p=00000000000&index=0&playnext=1">Youtube link</a>

var youtubeLink = document.getElementById('myLink').href;
var youtubeVideoKey = youtubeLink.substr(youtubeLink.lastIndexOf("v=") + 2, 11);

// youtubeVideoKey will return "cyRqR56aCKc"

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  1. Jeff Byrnes says:
    09/23/2010 at 10:16 pm

    Amazingly timely! I was just trying to work this out myself when this showed up in my RSS feed; thanks!

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