Videos should check for all versions of a URL on YouTube.

[ghost]

For example, when viewing a video on youtube, you can be viewing the https version for those that have extensions like "HTTPS Everywhere" (which seems like a lot of reddit users have) as well as the shortened versions (youtu.be/whatever) and whatever tags where added (youtube.com/whatever+featured?) or something like that is also very common. It would be nice if all of these were checked somehow, so you could tell if it had posted before not only with whatever version of the URL you are using.

[zants]

I second this. Maybe there's some regex way to focus on is the video's ID? (As it's constant in every YouTube URL, just in different locations).

Examples (the ID = jNQXAC9IVRw):

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw
• http://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw
• http://www.youtube.com/embed/jNQXAC9IVRw
• And a few others.

[Kerrick]

Sadly, I'm not aware of a way to search reddit's API using a partial URL, let alone a regex.