Get thumbnail image of video from video url

Question

Is it possible to get the thumbnail image from a video Url? I need to thumbnails of videos in a list view.

Answer 1

If you are specifically asking about youtube videos then there are automatically 4 generated images by Youtube.

http://img.youtube.com/vi/video_url_here/0.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/video_url_here/1.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/video_url_here/2.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/video_url_here/3.jpg

Standard Image sizes

Player Background Thumbnail (480x360 pixels) http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/G0wGs3useV8/0.jpg

Start Thumbnail (120x90 pixels) http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/G0wGs3useV8/1.jpg

Middle Thumbnail (120x90 pixels) http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/G0wGs3useV8/2.jpg

End Thumbnail (120x90 pixels) http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/G0wGs3useV8/3.jpg

High Quality Thumbnail (480x360 pixels) http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/G0wGs3useV8/hqdefault.jpg

Medium Quality Thumbnail (320x180 pixels) http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/G0wGs3useV8/mqdefault.jpg

Normal Quality Thumbnail (120x90 pixels) http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/G0wGs3useV8/default.jpg

Standard Definition Thumbnail (640x480 pixels) http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/G0wGs3useV8/sddefault.jpg

Maximum Resolution Thumbnail (1920x1080 pixels) http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/G0wGs3useV8/maxresdefault.jpg