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Created August 15, 2012 18:13
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Basic YouTube ID parser for an HTML page
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gistfile1.rb
#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
# Output YouTube ID's, one per line from a URL.
url = 'http://www.youtube.com/'
res = Net::HTTP.get_response( URI.parse( url ) )
reg = /href="\/watch\?v=([^"|^&]*)/
matches = res.body.scan( reg )
matches.uniq!
puts matches
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