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Python 3 Urllib to Extract YouTube Video ID From URL and Display it in Terminal
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Jun 3, 2025
Get the full source code of application here: https://codingshiksha.com/python/python-3-urllib-to-extract-youtube-video-id-from-url-and-display-it-in-terminal/
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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So in this video I will show you how to
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extract uh the video ID from the YouTube
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URL and simply return the video ID in
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the terminal using Python So this is a
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very common
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task inside applications if you're
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developing applications related to
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uh let's suppose
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uh YouTube So let's suppose let me uh
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show you a very simple example So video
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ID is nothing
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but let me
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just show you the video here Let's
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suppose this is I'm taking this example
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This is a YouTube video and this is
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actually the video ID portion If you see
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this is actually the video ID in the URL
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So now if you want to extract this video
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ID I will show you the Python script for
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this So for this we will be using this
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built-in module URL
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lip So I will show you step by step the
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script I've given the script in the
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description of this video So just create
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this app py file and now we just need to
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import URL lib It contains this function
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parse and from this we just need to
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import URL parse comma and
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parse
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QoS and then after importing the
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packages now we just need to simply make
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the URL array So I will simply
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paste the YouTube URL Simply write here
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paste
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it So we have pasted this Now we only
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want this portion So how we get this for
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this we define a actual
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function
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So we define a function here which will
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extract YouTube video ID So here we
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simply pass the URL
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So instead of an array we can simply
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just store this inside a simple variable
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So now we just need to define this
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function So right here I define this
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extract So it takes the URL as an
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argument
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So in the function we actually do some
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kind of regular expression First of all
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we need to parse the URL
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So for parsing the URL we actually use
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this method URL parse and we pass the
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URL to this function After that we now
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need to actually make a if condition
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that if
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passed URL contains this property host
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name and here we need to search to this
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pattern
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here www.youtube.com youtube.com or
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youtube.com So if this URL matches any
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of these patterns then we just need
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to extract
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the video id by using this function
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parseq and here we simply pass parse url
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dot query and then we return the query
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dot
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get the v portion So we need to extract
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the portion after this v is equal to So
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we are getting the value of v
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uh like this and then we simply need to
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say
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none
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zero So you can see that after
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that we simply say
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if we will basically do this for mobile
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short URL as well or embed
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URL but for the time period let me just
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print out
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this So just see if I execute the
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script So it will print out this video
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ID If you see that we printed out we
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successfully extracted the video ID from
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the URL So this is printing out right
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here
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So this is very simple Python script and
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you can simply modify this to handle all
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the URLs which are there in YouTube Let
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me paste this The full script is given
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in the description of this video So it
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basically handles all the patterns This
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is a normal URL This is the mobile URL
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of YouTube This is the embed URL This is
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the the long URL So in all the four
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cases if I run this now it will return
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out the video ID for each of the
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patterns You will see first second third
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fourth
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So the script is given guys in the
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description of this video and also check
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