It seems like pretty common problem/question on here to ask how to parse a YouTube video/user/channel/playlist url; with a lot of the answers being partial or outdated regex solutions (Meaning they don't support legacy urls or newer features like handles). Which made me wonder..
Can I simply just ask the v3 Youtube Data Api if a url is valid; then have it return any relevant information? (similar to doing a search w/the api, it'll tell you the type, id, etc.)
As far as I can tell from the reference it's not entirely possible.
The closest I could find was doing a search with the url as the query, but this unsurprisingly led to getting a list with somewhat unpredictable results.