[YouTube-API] Re: How to get the thumb of a video for youtube.be url.

Hello,

The oEmbed response isn't very flexible.

As of right now, the main 120px by 90px thumbnail URL will look like:

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/default.jpg

But that URL format might change in the future. If you are willing to
update your application's logic in case our thumbnail URLs ever do
change, you could get away with hardcoding that URL format and
plugging in VIDEO_ID values for the time being.

Alternatively, the YouTube Data API responses for a video entry do
include a full list of thumbnails at different sizes, e.g.:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/Zhawgd0REhA?v=2&alt=json&prettyprint=true

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com |
@YouTubeDev


On Apr 26, 10:23 pm, georgiagirl <deuces...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I figured out how to get the thumb with oembed by using the code below but
> it returns the thumbnail in 480/360px. Since I show alot of thumbs on one
> page this is causing alot of unnecessary cropping so Im wondering what I
> need to do to get the 120/90px size.
>
>     <code>
>           <?php
>              require_once(ABSPATH.'wp-includes/class-oembed.php');
>              $oembed= new WP_oEmbed;
>              $name = get_post_meta($post->ID,'video_code',true);
>              $url = $name;
>              //As noted in the comments below, you can auto-detect the
> video provider with the following
>              $provider = $oembed->discover($name);
>              //$provider = 'http://www.youtube.com/oembed';
>              $video = $oembed->fetch($provider, $url, array('width' => 300,
> 'height' => 175));
>              $thumb = $video->thumbnail_url; if ($thumb) { ?>
>                   <img src="<?php echo $thumb; ?>" width="66px"
> height="66px" />
>           <?php } ?>
>     </code>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thursday, April 26, 2012 7:05:03 PM UTC-4, georgiagirl wrote:
>
> > Ok I use wordpress and I allow users to submit youtube url's for a video
> > from the front end which I store in a custom field. I didn't see anything
> > on Oembed that explained how I could use it with this method. Can you by
> > any chance point me to the documentation that will help me figure this out?
>
> > On Thursday, April 26, 2012 4:12:41 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Posnick wrote:
>
> >> Hello,
>
> >>  The proper way to do this is to use oEmbed, which will take in a
> >> valid watch page URL and return info about the embed code for it,
> >> including the thumbnail:
>
> >>  http://apiblog.youtube.com/2009/10/oembed-support.html
>
> >>  Otherwise, you just need to update your regex, but that's not really
> >> a question related to the API.
>
> >> Cheers,
> >> -Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
> >> groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com |
> >> @YouTubeDev
>
> >> On Apr 26, 1:16 pm, georgiagirl <deuces...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Awhile back I found the code below that gets the thumb of a video from
> >> a
> >> > submitted url. The problem is that it works fine for every type of url
> >> but
> >> > the youtube.be shortened version. What do I change to this code to
> >> make it
> >> > grab the thumb of the youtube.be version aswell as the other versions?
>
> >> >    <code>
> >> >  function get_youtube_screen_link( $url = '', $type = 'default', $echo
> >> =
> >> > true ) {
> >> >     if( empty( $url ) )
> >> >         return false;
>
> >> >     if( !isset( $type ) )
> >> >         $type = '';
>
> >> >     $url = esc_url( $url );
>
> >> >     preg_match("|[\\?&]v=([^&#]*)|",$url,$vid_id);
>
> >> >     if( !isset( $vid_id[1] ) )
> >> >         return false;
>
> >> >     $img_server_num =  'i'. rand(1,4);
>
> >> >     switch( $type ) {
> >> >         case 'large':
> >> >             $img_link =
> >> > "http://{$img_server_num}.ytimg.com/vi/{$vid_id[1]}/0.jpg<http://ytimg.com/vi/%7B$vid_id%5B1%5D%7D/0.jpg>";
>
> >> >             break;
> >> >         case 'first':
> >> >             // Thumbnail of the first frame
> >> >             $img_link =
> >> > "http://{$img_server_num}.ytimg.com/vi/{$vid_id[1]}/1.jpg<http://ytimg.com/vi/%7B$vid_id%5B1%5D%7D/1.jpg>";
>
> >> >             break;
> >> >         case 'small':
> >> >             // Thumbnail of a later frame(i'm not sure how they
> >> determine
> >> > this)
> >> >             $img_link =
> >> > "http://{$img_server_num}.ytimg.com/vi/{$vid_id[1]}/2.jpg<http://ytimg.com/vi/%7B$vid_id%5B1%5D%7D/2.jpg>";
>
> >> >             break;
> >> >         case 'default':
> >> >         case '':
> >> >         default:
> >> >             $img_link =
> >> > "http://{$img_server_num}.ytimg.com/vi/{$vid_id[1]}/default.jpg<http://ytimg.com/vi/%7B$vid_id%5B1%5D%7D/default.jpg>";
>
> >> >             break;
> >> >     }
> >> >     if( $echo )
> >> >         echo $img_link;
> >> >     else
> >> >         return $img_link;
>
> >> > }
>
> >> > </code>

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