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You can use YouTube Data API to retrieve video thumbnails, caption, description, rating, statistics and more. API version 3 requires a key*. Obtain the key and create a videos: list request:


What Asaph said is right. However, not every YouTube video contains all ninethumbnails. Also, the thumbnails' image sizes depends on the video (the numbersbelow are based on one). There are some thumbnails guaranteed to exist:



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YouTube is owned by Google and Google likes to have a reasonable number of images for different screen sizes, hence its images are stored in different sizes. Here is an example of how your thumbnail will be like:


You can get the Video Entry which contains the URL to the video's thumbnail. There's example code in the link. Or, if you want to parse XML, there's information here. The XML returned has a media:thumbnail element, which contains the thumbnail's URL.


In YouTube Data API v3, you can get video's thumbnails with the videos->list function. From snippet.thumbnails.(key), you can pick the default, medium or high resolution thumbnail, and get its width, height and URL.


Just to add/expand on the solutions given, I feel it is necessary to note that, as I had this problem myself, one can actually grab multiple YouTube videos content, in this case, thumbnails, with one HTTP request:


Now change your video ID and your API key to the your respective video-id and api-key and its response will be a JSON output providing you the four links in the thumbnails of snippet variable (if all are available).


I think there is a lot of answers for thumbnail, but I want to add some other URLs to get YouTube thumbnail very easily. I am just taking some text from Asaph's answer. Here are some URLs to get YouTube thumbnails:


I am attempting to create a thumbnail preview from a video file (mp4,3gp) from a form input type='file'. Many have said that this can be done server side only. I find this hard to believe since I just recently came across this Fiddle using HTML5 Canvas and Javascript.


The only problem is this requires the video to be present and the user to click play before they click a button to capture the thumbnail. I am wondering if there is a way to get the same results without the player being present and user clicking the button. For example: User click on file upload and selects video file and then thumbnail is generated. Any help/thoughts are welcome!






You can use this function that I've written. You just need to pass the video file to it as an argument. It will return the dataURL of the thumbnail(i.e image preview) of that video. You can modify the return type according to your need.


I was coming across this issue in a nextJS site where I was using the mozilla MediaRecorder to record a video client side in browser. On mobile the first frame was always empty and the hacks to use a few milliseconds in weren't helpful since my video was coming from the MediaRecorder blob (rather than being streamed from a file).


If it helps anyone looking to do this in react and utilising "react-media-recorder" below worked perfectly for me taking a snapshot of the video after it starts recording and then using this as the thumbnail as the "poster" attribute.


This, however, makes the video start playing from that section of the video so to avoid that we add an event listener on the video's play button(s) and have the video start from the beginning by setting video.currentTime = 0


I'd like to extract thumbnail image from jpegs, without any external library. I mean this is not too difficult, because I need to know where the thumbnail starts, and ends in the file, and simply cut it. I study many documentation ( ie.: ), and try to analyze jpegs, but not everything clear. I tried to track step by step the bytes, but in the deep I confused. Is there any good documentation, or readable source code to extract the info about thumbnail start and end position within a jpeg file?


For most JPEG images created by phones or digital cameras, the thumbnail image (if present) is stored in the APP1 marker (FFE1). Inside this marker segment is a TIFF file containing the EXIF information for the main image and the optional thumbnail image stored as a JPEG compressed image. The TIFF file usually contains two "pages" where the first page is the EXIF info and the second page is the thumbnail stored in the "old" TIFF type 6 format. Type 6 format is when a JPEG file is just stored as-is inside of a TIFF wrapper. If you want the simplest possible code to extract the thumbnail as a JFIF, you will need to do the following steps:


There is a much simpler solution for this problem, but I don't know how reliable it is: Start reading the JPEG file from the third byte and search for FFD8 (start of JPEG image marker), then for FFD9 (end of JPEG image marker). Extract it and voila, that's your thumbnail.


The wikipedia page on JFIF at _File_Interchange_Format gives a good description of the JPEG Header(the header contains the thumbnail as an uncompressed raster image). That should give you an idea of the layout and thus the code needed to extract the info.


From the above example, you can see that the header length is 16 bytes (bytes 6,5) and version is 01.01 (bytes 12,13). Further, as Thumbnail Width and Thumbnail Height are both 0x00, the image doesn't contain a thumbnail.


Video thumbnails let your audience view a quick snapshot of your video. You can choose from the options YouTube automatically generates, or upload your own if your account is verified. Make sure your thumbnail follows our Community Guidelines.


Note: Vertical videos with 16:9 custom thumbnails will be replaced by an auto-generated 4:5 thumbnail on the home, explore, and subscription pages. Your custom thumbnail will still appear on the watch feed, watch history, and non-mobile platforms.


When you upload a video to SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, or Yammer, Stream will autogenerate a thumbnail from the video's contents. You can change the thumbnail of audio or video files by uploading a new one or picking a frame from the video as the new thumbnail.


Simply the above writes down center key-frame of each partition of the movie.E.g. if movie is 300s long and you want 3 thumbnails then it takes one key frame after 50s, 150s and 250s. For 5 thumbnails it would be 30s, 90s, 150s, 210s, 270s. You can adjust N depending on movie duration D, that e.g. 5 minute movie will have 3 thumbnails but over 1 hour will have 20 thumbnails.


I once did something similar, but I exported all frames of the video (in 1 fps) and compared them with a perl utility I found which computes the difference between images. I compared each frame to previous thumbnails, and if it was different from all thumbnails, I added it to the thumbnails collection. The advantage here is that if your video moves from scene A to B and them returns to A, ffmpeg will export 2 frames of A.


Here's what I do to generate a periodic thumbnail for live m3u8 streams to use as a poster. I found running a continuous ffmpeg task just to generate thumbnails eats up all my CPU, so instead I run a cronjob every 60 seconds that generates all the thumbnails for my streams.


I can't add comments yet, so in reference to  jaygooby solution causing a syntax error Meaningful thumbnails for a Video using FFmpeg, the problem is that $N (number of screenshots) wasn't declared. The fix is to add it at the beginning of the command, like this:


Definitely depends also on the video you want to get the thumbs from. For a classical slides lecture with a talking head in the corner, my resulty were best with ffmpeg -i vid.mp4 -vf "thumbnail,select=gt(scene\,0.015)" -vsync vfr -r 1 -frame_pts 1 out%010d.jpg -- so a combination of the built-in thumbnail extractor, and the look for a small change in the video scene. Some slide animations were taken superfluously, but also I could be sure to not miss anything.


You linked a question that said you can SET a photo as the tile, did you try that? Windows does cache/store thumbnail photos which it is likely drawing from. Likely in time that'll get updated & the photo will change in the tile. I sense you want to quicken that though, Thumbs.db (hidden file) I think was the File Explorer thumbnail cache, don't know what it is for Photos app.


Perform a Disk Cleanup and make sure to remove thumbnails (Click the little arrow next to it). Then right-click on photos and go to More->App Settings. Go to reset app and click reset. This worked for me.


This plugin generates thumbnail from video file or URL. It returns image in memory or writes into a file. It offers rich options to control the image format, resolution and quality. Supports iOS and Android.


Giving both the maxHeight and maxWidth has different result on Android platform, it actually scales the thumbnail to the specified maxHeight and maxWidth.To generate the thumbnail from a network resource, the video must be properly URL encoded.


A video thumbnail is a still image that acts as the preview image for your video. It is the "book cover" for your video. A good thumbnail image highlights the content of your video and makes it stands out. It makes people WANT to watch your video.


You can choose a specific frame from the video manually by specifying its timestamp. If you want to capture the frame at 00:15, add -ss 00:00:15 before your input video to take a screenshot at the 15th second of the video.


FFmpeg has many built-in filters to help you manipulate the media files easily. One of them is the Thumbnail filter. It will select the most representative frame in a given sequence of consecutive frames automatically from the video.


If you are embedding your video on a website, you can generate text on your thumbnail automatically using Bannerbear via Signed URL. The thumbnail with text will be generated automatically when a user visits your website.


In this tutorial, you create and configure a Lambda function that resizes images added to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. When you add an image file to your bucket, Amazon S3 invokes your Lambda function. The function then creates a thumbnail version of the image and outputs it to a different Amazon S3 bucket.

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