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Tool: Get thumbnail images for youtube videos

Tool: Get thumbnail images for youtube videos

Written by Charlie on 2015-02-10

Here is a small tool for grabbing the thumbnail image for a youtube video — something I sometimes need to do and always have to DDG or Google. There is a very helpful StackOverflow answer, which it is straightforward to implement in Javascript (have a look at the source code of the page).

Update 2018: Ed Johnson-Williams has made a site that does the same thing, but can also overlay a play button on your youtube thumbnail.

Just paste a youtube url in the box, choose your resolution and you’re away.

The thumbnail for your video is:

Copy and pasteable html image tag:

Here is a link to it: Youtube thumbnail

And here is how it looks:

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