C#•12mo ago

Get Youtube thumbnail

I am developing a Discord bot, but I have a problem, how can I use YouTube video thumbnails?

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ArsenicOP•12mo ago

my bot finds and plays the song from YouTube, but I want to use the video thumbnail as well

Thinker•12mo ago

Be aware that playing songs off of YouTube through eg. a bot is against YouTube's terms of service. In any case, YouTube has an official API you can use to fetch video metadata like thumbnails, titles, descriptions, etc.

Thinker•12mo ago

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3

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YouTube Data API | Google for Developers

Add YouTube features to your application, including the ability to upload videos, create and manage playlists, and more.

Tvde1•12mo ago

There are C# nuget packages for this

arion•12mo ago

For thumbnails you just take the video ID and slap it in either of these links https://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/maxresdefault.jpg https://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/hqdefault.jpg https://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/mqdefault.jpg Bear in mind, sometimes the highest quality is not available so a placeholder is put that looks like this:

arion•12mo ago

Here's a regex to get the video id from a link

^((?:https?:)?\/\/)?((?:www|m)\.)?((?:youtube(-nocookie)?\.com|youtu.be))(\/(?:[\w\-]+\?v=|shorts\/|embed\/|v\/)?)([\w\-]+)(\S+)?$

^((?:https?:)?\/\/)?((?:www|m)\.)?((?:youtube(-nocookie)?\.com|youtu.be))(\/(?:[\w\-]+\?v=|shorts\/|embed\/|v\/)?)([\w\-]+)(\S+)?$

arion•12mo ago

An example usage of this would be Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK3-tO7K6i8 Thumbnail link: https://img.youtube.com/vi/rK3-tO7K6i8/maxresdefault.jpg

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