Fetch YouTube highest thumbnail resolution

Question

I want to get youtube highest thumbnail \"maxresdefault.jpg\"

Like this one

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Cj6ho1-G6tw/maxresdefault.jpg

I\'m using this simple ph

Answer 1

Thanks to Ibrahim Ulukaya's answer I was able to understand why David Chen's previously correct answer no longer works; Google has deprecated that prior working API. (Wicked, bad, naughty, evil, Google.)

The following URL will return a list of thumbnail objects using the Data API v3:

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?id={VIDEO_ID}&key={API_KEY}&part=snippet&fields=items/snippet/thumbnails

The {VIDEO_ID} can be found as part of any YouTube video URL and the {API_KEY} requires you to:

• First Create a Project
• Then Enable YouTube's Data API v3 and
• Finally Create an API key.

Once you have the URL with your VIDEO_ID and API_KEY substituted for the placeholders you should get back JSON that looks something like this:

{
 "items": [
  {
   "snippet": {
    "thumbnails": {
     "default": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7Ey-Xkwn1s0/default.jpg",
      "width": 120,
      "height": 90
     },
     "medium": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7Ey-Xkwn1s0/mqdefault.jpg",
      "width": 320,
      "height": 180
     },
     "high": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7Ey-Xkwn1s0/hqdefault.jpg",
      "width": 480,
      "height": 360
     },
     "standard": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7Ey-Xkwn1s0/sddefault.jpg",
      "width": 640,
      "height": 480
     },
     "maxres": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7Ey-Xkwn1s0/maxresdefault.jpg",
      "width": 1280,
      "height": 720
     }
    }
   }
  }
 ]
}

From there I am guessing you'll know what to do...?

Hope this helps.