Tip #1: Thumbnails from YouTube

Here is a quick tip on how to get thumbnail images for your desired YouTube video.

YouTube automatically generates up to 3 thumbnail images that are 130 x 97 pixels in dimension and in JPEG format. These thumbnails are accessible in the following URI format:

http://img.youtube.com/vi/videoID/1.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/videoID/2.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/videoID/3.jpg

Using the Power of Ten video as an example, you can get its videoID (BBsOeLcUARw) from the video URL and hence the thumbnail images as follows:

Video URL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBsOeLcUARw

Thumbnails:

Powers of Ten - 1 of 3

Powers of Ten - 1 of 3

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

Powers of Ten - 1 of 3

Powers of Ten - 2 of 3

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

Powers of Ten - 3 of 3

Powers of Ten - 3 of 3

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

Bonus:

The bonus is you get a 320 x 240 image with the following (0.jpg):

Powers of Ten - 320x240

Powers of Ten - 320x240

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

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