Regular Facebook URL update

Question

I am trying to validate facebook video url using regex.

this is an example url of a valid fb video with username: https://www.facebook.com/ {username} / video / 100000000000000

But my reqex is still wrong if I check the url of the video snippet with the username.
This is my regex:

^http(s)?://(www\.)?facebook.([a-z]+)/(?!(?:video\.php\?v=\d+|usernameFB/videos/\d+)).*$

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Zulkifli Said Apr 25. At 2:07 am

3 answers

This is slightly different from Pedro, but it works well.

^http(?:s)?://(?:www\.)?facebook.(?:[a-z]+)/((?:video\.php\?v=\d+|username\d/videos/\d+)).*$

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Phil walton Apr 25. 15 at 2:14

Neither of the two existing ones worked for me, not to say they have few visible cases.

So here's my REGEX suggestion :

^(?:(?:https?:)?\/\/)?(?:www\.)?facebook\.com\/[a-z\.]+\/videos\/(?:[a-z0-9\.]+\/)?([0-9]+)\/?(?:\?.*)?$

I ignored video.php

, I think he's old enough to safely ignore him.

Matches:

I don't own or watch any of the videos. I just picked random ones that were in my facebook post.

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Test

You can easily test it yourself with Regex101

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zurfyx May 19 '17 at 9:03

Pedro lobito · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-25T02:12:56+0000

This will work for you:

^(https?://www\.facebook\.com/(?:video\.php\?v=\d+|.*?/videos/\d+))$

Demo