youtube image hd url code example
Example 1: how toget image from a youtube video url
| Thumbnail Name | Size (px) | URL |
|---------------------|-----------|--------------------------------------------------|
| Player Background | 480x360 | https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/<VIDEO ID>/0.jpg |
| Start | 120x90 | https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/<VIDEO ID>/1.jpg |
| Middle | 120x90 | https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/<VIDEO ID>/2.jpg |
| End | 120x90 | https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/<VIDEO ID>/3.jpg |
| High Quality | 480x360 | https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/<VIDEO ID>/hqdefault.jpg |
| Medium Quality | 320x180 | https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/<VIDEO ID>/mqdefault.jpg |
| Normal Quality | 120x90 | https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/<VIDEO ID>/default.jpg |
Example 2: How do I get a YouTube video thumbnail from the YouTube API?
$data = file_get_contents("https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?key=YOUR_API_KEY&part=snippet&id=T0Jqdjbed40");
$json = json_decode($data);
var_dump($json->items[0]->snippet->thumbnails);