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  1. <?php
  2.  
  3.  function getYouTubeXMLUrl( $url) {
  4.  
  5.     $xml_youtube_url_base = 'h'.'ttps://youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml';
  6.     $preg_entities        = [
  7.         'channel_id'  => '\/channel\/([^\/?#]+)', //match YouTube channel ID from url
  8.         'user'        => '\/user\/([^\/?#]+)',    //match YouTube user from url
  9.     ];
  10.  
  11.     foreach ( $preg_entities as $key => $preg_entity ) {
  12.         if ( preg_match( '/' . $preg_entity . '/', $url, $matches ) ) {
  13.             if ( isset( $matches[1] ) ) {
  14. 				return [
  15. 						'rss' => $xml_youtube_url_base . '?' . $key . '=' . $matches[1],
  16.                         'id' => $matches[1],
  17.                         'type' => $key,
  18.                     ];
  19.             }
  20.         }
  21.     }
  22. }
  23.  
  24. // works
  25. $url = 'h'.'ttps://youtube.com/channel/UCBLAoqCQyz6a0OvwXWzKZag';
  26.  
  27. $channel = getYouTubeXMLUrl($url);
  28. print_r($channel) . PHP_EOL;
  29.  
  30. // doesn't work
  31. $url = 'h'. 'ttps://youtube.com/channel/UCBLAoqCQyz6a0OvwXWzKZag?PARAMETER=HELLO';
  32. print_r(getYouTubeXMLUrl($url));
  33. $url = 'h'. 'ttps://youtube.com/channel/UCBLAoqCQyz6a0OvwXWzKZag/RANDOMFOLDER';
  34. print_r(getYouTubeXMLUrl($url));
  35.  
  36.  
Success #stdin #stdout 0.02s 24556KB
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stdin 
Standard input is empty
stdout 
Array
(
    [rss] => https://y...content-available-to-author-only...e.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCBLAoqCQyz6a0OvwXWzKZag
    [id] => UCBLAoqCQyz6a0OvwXWzKZag
    [type] => channel_id
)
Array
(
    [rss] => https://y...content-available-to-author-only...e.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCBLAoqCQyz6a0OvwXWzKZag
    [id] => UCBLAoqCQyz6a0OvwXWzKZag
    [type] => channel_id
)
Array
(
    [rss] => https://y...content-available-to-author-only...e.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCBLAoqCQyz6a0OvwXWzKZag
    [id] => UCBLAoqCQyz6a0OvwXWzKZag
    [type] => channel_id
)
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language:
PHP (php 7.3.5)
created:
4 years ago
visibility:
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