Is there a way to get a high definition YouTube video without a brochure?
I don't understand at all why the YouTube API thumbnails seem to include a letterbox for the video. If I want a thumbnail image of this video and use the methods shown here I can get a version mqdefault
that is a little too small (but fortunately has no mailbox), but if I jump in to say sddefault
which is a good size, I get:
( http://img.youtube.com/vi/12fR9neVnS8/sddefault.jpg )
I just want it without the booklet. Do I need to fool myself programmatically? Is there a way to get decent sized YouTube thumbnails without letterboxing?
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Downloaded videos create three 4: 3 thumbnails (standard, medium and standard).
High definition videos also create two more miniatures in 16: 9 aspect ratio (high and maximum), as well as 4: 3 thumbs that give the axle box the box.
For this video, these are the available thumbnails:
"thumbnails": {
"default": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/12fR9neVnS8/default.jpg",
"width": 120,
"height": 90
},
"medium": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/12fR9neVnS8/mqdefault.jpg",
"width": 320,
"height": 180
},
"high": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/12fR9neVnS8/hqdefault.jpg",
"width": 480,
"height": 360
},
"standard": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/12fR9neVnS8/sddefault.jpg",
"width": 640,
"height": 480
},
"maxres": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/12fR9neVnS8/maxresdefault.jpg",
"width": 1280,
"height": 720
}
It looks like you want https://i.ytimg.com/vi/12fR9neVnS8/maxresdefault.jpg
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Doug ... I have to do it programmatically (in my case, in C #).
Instead of styling with CSS, I automatically create a sketch. I couldn't find a good way to determine if I needed a style for the full screen versions of thumbnails and widescreen versions (most of the solutions I found involved style the image as a background to get the browser cropping effect). My tool allows users to enter whatever Youtube keys they want, so I have no control over what they choose.
I'll start by calling:
https://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEOKEY&format=xml
and then I use the thumbnail property it returns to populate my video clip (usually hqdefault.jpg). The C # function I found is linked below.
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