Javascript Code Function Extract YouTube Video ID from URL

Javascript Code Function to Take a Typical video URL [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tin4XpIZ_aM] and Extract the YouTube Video ID From it [Tin4XpIZ_aM]

Javascript function to take a standard youtube video url and extract the video id from it.

/* ------------------------------------------------------ EXTRACT YOUTUBE VIDEO ID [Tw0a56uwjRo] FROM THE YOUTUBE VIDEO URL [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw0a56uwjRo] RETURN 2 PART ARRAY ... - [0] = original video url if [1] = false (could not get video id for some reason) - [0] = id of youtube video [1] = true (success at getting video id from youtube video url) ------------------------------------------------------- */ function ytvideo_id_from_url ( video_url ) { // make sure that [video_url] contains [?v=] if(video_url.indexOf('?v=') !== -1){ // get whats to the right side of ?v= let arr = video_url.split('?v='); // if there is a query in the url [&t=14] // remove it by splitting at it and returning [0] if(arr[1].indexOf('&' !== -1)){ arr[1] = arr[1].split('&')[0]; } return [arr[1], true]; }else{ return [video_url, false]; } }