Get Thumbnail From Youtube Video Using PHP
Last Updated : Jul 1, 2023
In this tutorial we will show you how to get thumbnail from youtube video using PHP. You can get any video thumbnail by entering youtube video url in text box and choose quality of image like high quality, medium quality, low quality etc.
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To Get Thumbnail From Youtube Video It Takes Only Three Steps:-
- Make a HTML file and define markup
- Make a PHP file to get thumbnail from youtube video
- Make a CSS file and define styling
Step 1. Make a HTML file and define markup
We make a HTML file and save it with a name thumbnail.html
<html> <head> <link href="thumbnail_style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"/> </head> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <div class="thumbnail_div"> <form method="post" action="get_thumbnail.php"> <input type="text" name="url" placeholder="Enter URL"> <input type="submit" name="get_thumbnail" value="GET THUMBNAIL"> </form> </div> </div> </body> </html>
In this step we create a form to enter youtube video url and send it to get_thumbnail.php page where we extract thumbnail from url.
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Step 2. Make a PHP file to get thumbnail from youtube video
We make a PHP file and save it with a name get_thumbnail.php
<?php
if(isset($_POST['get_thumbnail']))
{
$url=$_POST['url'];
$fetch=explode("v=", $url);
$videoid=$fetch[1];
echo '<img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/'.$videoid.'/0.jpg" width="250"/>';
}
?>
// For Thumbnail Quality Type
http://img.youtube.com/vi/'.$videoid.'/default.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/'.$videoid.'/hqdefault.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/'.$videoid.'/mqdefault.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/'.$videoid.'/sddefault.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/'.$videoid.'/maxresdefault.jpg
In this step we get the youtube video url and get value video id by using explode() function
which is after the 'v' variable in url.
We use youtube image storing subdomain 'img.youtube.com' and write full path where youtube store its video thumbnail and write '0' which is the default video thumbnail.
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Step 3. Make a CSS file and define styling
We make a CSS file and save it with a name thumbnail_style.css
body
{
margin:0 auto;
padding:0px;
text-align:center;
width:100%;
font-family: "Myriad Pro","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;
background-color:#2C3E50;
}
#wrapper
{
margin:0 auto;
padding:0px;
text-align:center;
width:995px;
}
#wrapper h1
{
margin-top:50px;
font-size:45px;
color:white;
}
#wrapper h1 p
{
font-size:18px;
}
.form_div input[type="text"]
{
width:380px;
height:50px;
border-radius:2px;
font-size:17px;
padding-left:5px;
border:1px solid silver;
}
.form_div input[type="submit"]
{
width:150px;
height:50px;
border:none;
border-radius:2px;
font-size:15px;
background-color:#7F8C8D;
border-bottom:3px solid #616A6B;
color:white;
font-weight:bold;
}
That's all, this is how to get thumbnail from youtube video using PHP. You can customize this code further as per your requirement. And please feel free to give comments on this tutorial. I hope this tutorial on how to get thumbnail from youtube video using PHP helps you and the steps and method mentioned above are easy to follow and implement.
About Riya
A recent graduate with a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Computer Science from India. She is passionate about leveraging technology to solve real-world problems. With a strong foundation and experience in programming languages such as Python, Django, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, java, php and have honed her skills through hands-on projects and coursework.
