Question

I’m trying to find a quick way to get an ID from a url like this in javascript or jquery?

https://plus.google.com/115025207826515678661/posts
https://plus.google.com/115025207826515678661/
https://plus.google.com/115025207826515678661
http://plus.google.com/115025207826515678661/posts
http://plus.google.com/115025207826515678661/
http://plus.google.com/115025207826515678661
plus.google.com/115025207826515678661/posts
plus.google.com/115025207826515678661/
plus.google.com/115025207826515678661

want to just get 115025207826515678661 from the URL

Is there a sure way to always get the ID regardless of the way its typed?

Answer 1

You could use this javascript which works on all the urls you posted:

var url, patt, matches, id;

url = 'https://plus.google.com/115025207826515678661/posts';
patt = /\/(\d+)(?:\/|$)/
matches = patt.exec(url);
id = matches[1];