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Getting thumbnails from online videos?

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 1:19 am
by 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.

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 2:21 am
by JCV
Thanks for the youtube api link. I used to manually extract on the webpage about the details. :lol:

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 10:30 pm
by ricardo

Re: Getting thumbnails from online videos?

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 10:53 pm
by ricardo
Joakim Christiansen wrote: 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.

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 11:19 pm
by Joakim Christiansen
Thanks, hoping I can get something to work now! :)

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 7:20 pm
by Joakim Christiansen
Well I got this thingy working.

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