How do I get a YouTube video thumbnail from the YouTube API?

Question

If I have a YouTube video URL, is there any way to use PHP and cURL to get the associated thumbnail from the YouTube API?

Answer 1

I think their are a lots of answer for thumbnail, but I want to add some other URLs to get YouTube thumbnail very easily. I am just taking some text from Asaph's answer. Here are some URLs to get YouTube thumbnails:

https://ytimg.googleusercontent.com/vi//default.jpg

For the high quality version of the thumbnail use a URL similar to this:

https://ytimg.googleusercontent.com/vi//hqdefault.jpg

There is also a medium quality version of the thumbnail, using a URL similar to the high quality:

https://ytimg.googleusercontent.com/vi//mqdefault.jpg

For the standard definition version of the thumbnail, use a URL similar to this:

https://ytimg.googleusercontent.com/vi//sddefault.jpg

For the maximum resolution version of the thumbnail use a URL similar to this:

https://ytimg.googleusercontent.com/vi//maxresdefault.jpg