Filtering video code using PHP/JS/HTML

I'm currently in the developing process of my new site, Vidmarkr, which automatically bookmarks videos when you input the URL.

The trouble I'm having is getting the video's HTML to be filtered out of the page, ready to go onto mine.

For example, in the page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeye8wnBJoU, I want to extract the code:

Any ideas?

Thanks,

B.

Isn't the embed code the same for all videos? (aside from the video id)
Why not just take the video ID and put it into the generic code rather than scraping the page.

Well, it'd be different from different sites, e.g Vimeo, I guess, but I need to find how to scrape the code anyway. How'd I do this?

If I recall correctly (a very quick test seemed to agree) YouTube uses JavaScript to inject the Flash into the page so you won't be able to scrape the player code directly.

If the video is available for embedding, you could grab the code from the "embed code" textbox.

Is there a way you could scrape the text from that embed code textbox then?

Thanks!

Well, either way for each website you'd need a new method to scrape or put the video ID in.

The less complicated way is to just have your script recognize the URL they've input and then insert that into the code samples from each site.

Otherwise even if you did try to cURL the embed code it's a) gonna be a heavier script than needed and b) will have to be handled differently for each site anyway.