Getting thumbnails from online videos?

[Joakim Christiansen]

Hello folks, I'm making a webpage where people should be able to submit URLs to videos from YouTube, Google, Dailymotion, etc. And I need my server to automatically get the thumbnails from these and save them. If anyone could help me with this I would really appreciate it!

I found out how to get them from YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/dev_api_ref?m=yo ... et_details
Or just use this URL: http://img.youtube.com/vi/VideoID/2.jpg

Now I need info on how to get them from other pages, Google is a must, and I would be glad if I could get them from Dailymotion too. I will of course try to create PHP scripts for this and I can share them too if anyone is interested.

[JCV]

Thanks for the youtube api link. I used to manually extract on the webpage about the details.

[ricardo]

http://www.kubelabs.com/forums/archive/ ... /t-63.html

[ricardo]

Or just use this URL: http://img.youtube.com/vi/VideoID/2.jpg

Also
http://img.youtube.com/vi/VideoID/1.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/VideoID/3.jpg

Should work, showing different thumbs.

[Joakim Christiansen]

http://www.kubelabs.com/forums/archive/ ... /t-63.html

Thanks, hoping I can get something to work now!

[Joakim Christiansen]

Well I got this thingy working.

EDIT:
Link removed, it's better to show it when it's fully finished.