Question

I wanted to get some help on this. I need to take the link that is being pulled in from a feed and extract a portion of the url and then populate it in an img tags src.

html += '<'+ options.titletag +' class="rssRow '+row+'"><a href="'+ entry.link +'" title="View this feed at '+ feeds.title +'">'+ entry.title +'</a></'+ options.titletag +'>'
        if (options.date) html += '<div>'+ pubDate +'</div>'

So what I am looking to do here is grab the url generated from here + entry.link + and then from the generated link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acvh0CcSr8k&feature=youtube_gdata just grab the video ID acvh0CcSr8k

and push that into the img’s source

<img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/**""**/2.jpg" border="0" />

Answer 1

You can use a regular expression to extract the Id (I don’t know why the API doesn’t provide it though…)

/^http:\/\/(?:www\.)?youtube\.com\/watch\?v=(.*?)&/

Your id will be in $1.