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Get YouTube Video Thumbnail URL using PHP

May 2, 2018 by Editorial Staff

YouTube is the world’s favorite video search engine. It’s very common now people use YouTube video in their websites/blog. Today’s tutorial we are demonstrating how to fetch YouTube video thumbnail using PHP.

Basically  this simple PHP script fetch  YouTube thumbnail image from a full YouTube video URL.

Get Thumbnail Image URL from YouTube Embed Code

$videoUrl = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zy7wGbQgfw";
parse_str( parse_url( $videoUrl, PHP_URL_QUERY ), $my_array_of_vars );
$ytID = $my_array_of_vars['v']; //gets video ID

 

print "https://img.youtube.com/vi/<?php print $ytID?>/maxresdefault.jpg";
print "https://img.youtube.com/vi/<?php print $ytID?>/mqdefault.jpg";
print "https://img.youtube.com/vi/<?php print $ytID?>/hqdefault.jpg";
print "https://img.youtube.com/vi/<?php print $ytID?>/sddefault.jpg";
print "https://img.youtube.com/vi/<?php print $ytID?>/default.jpg";

To get different thumbnails

https://img.youtube.com/vi/<?php print $ytID?>/0.jpg
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<?php print $ytID?>/1.jpg
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<?php print $ytID?>/2.jpg
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<?php print $ytID?>/3.jpg

Read this post to get more details about how to get YouTube thumbnail images manually.

 


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