--- title: "Yt::URL" h2: "URLs" ---
Yt::URL
is a convenience class to identify YouTube resources based on their URL patterns:
{% include doc.html library="yt-url" instance="URL#initialize" %}{% include example.html object='url = Yt::URL' method='new' params=' "youtu.be/gknzFj_0vvY"' %}
{% include doc.html library="yt-url" instance="URL#kind" %}{% include example.html object='url' method='kind' result=':video' %}
{% include doc.html library="yt-url" instance="URL#id" %}{% include example.html object='url' method='id' result='"gknzFj_0vvY"' %}
{% include doc.html library="yt-url" instance="URL#resource" %}{% include example.html object='url' method='resource' result='#<Yt::Video @id=gknzFj_0vvY>' %}
Yt::URL
is not part of the yt
library, but comes from the yt-url extension.
To use in any bundled Ruby project, remember to add the line gem 'yt-url', '~> 0.0.0'
to its Gemfile.
Using Yt::URL
does not require authentication since it is based on matching a set of hard-coded patterns: