How To Download A Thumbnail Image From YouTube

YouTube is my best friend now because I am making good money from YouTube. On another side it is a most popular video sharing platform. There is a 130+ videos in my YT channel. I love to share tutorial related to YouTube. Today, I thought I'd write a short tutorial to show you how to easily download thumbnail images for a YouTube video. There are a some unique ways that you can get thumbnails from a YouTube video, one of which is to use YouTube's Video API to get the thumbnail. It is not a easy way for me. But there is a simple way to do this. Follow the steps given below:

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Here is the YouTube URL format that you will need in order to view and download a thumbnail from a YouTube video:

http://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/#.jpg

Note: Replace red color highlighted text with your video id. For example: VIDEO_ID=jcNDRSPhZik

1st Thumbnail Image, Small (120x90)

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

3rd Thumbnail Image, Small (120x90)

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

2nd Default Thumbnail Image, Small (120x90)

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

Default Thumbnail Image, Full-Size (480x360)

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

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