Retrieving YouTube Video Thumbnail

Posted November 2nd, 2007 by administrator

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This might seem like a daunting task at first.
How about writing an Flash video scrapper or flash decoder or blah. blah...

Fear not, when the video is upload the thumbnail is also uploaded/created
So we can reference the thumbnail using this link

http://img.youtube.com/vi/[VIDEO_ID]/default.jpg

All you need is the unique video id and replace [VIDEO_ID] with the actual value as
http://img.youtube.com/vi/FkPBBZiMAjY/default.jpg

Cheers'

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Thank you!! You saved me a

On September 19th, 2008 Josh Patton (not verified) says:

Thank you!!

You saved me a lot of work here.

Anymore magical Youtube urls?

Thanks heaps.

On September 11th, 2008 ankara nakliyat (not verified) says:

Thanks heaps.

You are a life saver. This

On May 12th, 2008 Kalianto (not verified) says:

You are a life saver. This is something I've been looking for a while.
You are champion. Do you know the code for Google video as well ?
Thanks heaps.....