The embed URL for a channel’s live stream is:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/live_stream?channel=CHANNEL_ID
and it works but if I want to embed near at it a YouTube live chat for current streaming the URL that I use for the embed is:
https://www.youtube.com/live_chat?v=VIDEOID&embed_domain=DOMAINURL
The problem is this: for every new live stream the Video ID changes. So that the embedded code isn’t valid anymore and chat isn’t displayed for next streaming.I want a permanent URL live chat valid for all my YouTube streaming without change video id manually every time. How to resolve? Perhaps with a script in PHP or javascript that read current YouTube URL and replace video id in chat embed URL? thanks
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Answer
You could get the video ID using PHP like this:
<?php try { $videoId = getLiveVideoID('CHANNEL_ID'); // Output the Chat URL echo "The Chat URL is https://www.youtube.com/live_chat?v=".$videoId; } catch(Exception $e) { // Echo the generated error echo "ERROR: ".$e->getMessage(); } // The method which finds the video ID function getLiveVideoID($channelId) { $videoId = null; // Fetch the livestream page if($data = file_get_contents('https://www.youtube.com/embed/live_stream?channel='.$channelId)) { // Find the video ID in there if(preg_match('/'VIDEO_ID': "(.*?)"/', $data, $matches)) $videoId = $matches[1]; else throw new Exception('Couldn't find video ID'); } else throw new Exception('Couldn't fetch data'); return $videoId; }