How Do I Get A YouTube Video Thumbnail From The YouTube API

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July 19, 2015

Each YouTube video has 4 generated images. They are predictably formatted as follows:

http://img.youtube.com/vi//0.jpg

http://img.youtube.com/vi//1.jpg

http://img.youtube.com/vi//2.jpg

http://img.youtube.com/vi//3.jpg

The first one in the list is a full size image and others are thumbnail images. The default thumbnail image (ie. one of 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg).

http://img.youtube.com/vi//default.jpg

high quality version of the thumbnail

http://img.youtube.com/vi//hqdefault.jpg

medium quality version of the thumbnail

http://img.youtube.com/vi//mqdefault.jpg

standard definition version of the thumbnail

http://img.youtube.com/vi//sddefault.jpg

maximum resolution version of the thumbnail

http://img.youtube.com/vi//maxresdefault.jpg

Example:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKtAaKid4CM

http://img.youtube.com/vi//0.jpg

YouTube Video Id is :- pKtAaKid4CM

http://img.youtube.com/vi/pKtAaKid4CM/0.jpg