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Asked: 2020-11-06 06:23:10 +0800 CST 2020-11-06 06:23:10 +0800 CST

Pick up video thumbnail from youtube api

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If I have the URL of a Youtube video.

How can I access the thumbnails of that same video?

English post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2068344/how-do-i-get-a-youtube-video-thumbnail-from-the-youtube-api

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  1. Best Answer

    Answer in English: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2068371/4840995

    Each YouTube video has 4 generated images. They have a predictable format as follows:

    https://img.youtube.com/vi/<youtube-video-id>/0.jpg
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<youtube-video-id>/1.jpg
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<youtube-video-id>/2.jpg
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<youtube-video-id>/3.jpg

    The first in the list will be a full image and the others will be thumbnails. The default thumbnail (eg from: 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg) are:

    https://img.youtube.com/vi/<youtube-video-id>/default.jpg

    For the high quality version of the thumbnail use:

    https://img.youtube.com/vi/<youtube-video-id>/hqdefault.jpg

    There is also a medium quality thumbnail using the following high definition similar URL:

    https://img.youtube.com/vi/<youtube-video-id>/mqdefault.jpg

    For the standard definition use:

    https://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/sddefault.jpg

    For maximum thumbnail resolution use:

    https://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/maxresdefault.jpg

    All of the above URLs are available in http as well. Additionally, the host name shortened i3.ytimg.comor i.ytimg.comworks in place of img.youtube.comin the previous examples.

    Otherwise, you can also use the data from the Youtube API (v3) to collect the thumbnails:

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