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How to get Youtube Video Thumbnail Images
March 04, 2018
Problem
You know your youtube URL. And, you want to know its thumbnail image that you can use on your website, or somewhere. Note: Video can be any video on youtube.com website.Get Youtube Thumbnail Images
Youtube provides video's thumbnails publically available to users. Anyone can use them. Youtube provides multiple resolution images. You need to know the video id.If your youtube video looks like:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0kFl7sBdDQ
Then, your video id is:g0kFl7sBdDQ
There are two ways to get thumbnail URL:
- Get URL from any of following possible URLs:
- https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video_id>/default.jpg
Having dimensions: 120x90
This is the default image.
- https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video_id>/mqdefault.jpg
Having dimensions: 320x180
This is called medium size thumbnail.
- https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video_id>/hqdefault.jpg
Having dimensions: 480x360
This is called high size thumbnail.
- https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video_id>/sddefault.jpg
Having dimensions: 640x480
This is called standard size.
- https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video_id>/maxresdefault.jpg
Having dimensions: 1280x720
This is the maximum resolution available
- https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video_id>/default.jpg
- Use Youtube Rest APIs
See: Using Youtube Rest APIs
Enjoy.
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