How to Get Thumbnail From Youtube Video Using PHP

admin | Posted on May 9, 2021 |

Sometime it’s necessary to display the Thumbnail Image of a youtube video from URL. So in this tutorial am going to example you how to get the thumbnail image of a video from youtube. Here am using PHP to obtain the output.

HTML Code

<html>
    <head></head>
    <body>
        <form method="post" action="">
            <input type="text" name="url" placeholder="Enter URL">
            <input type="submit" name="get_thumbnail" value="GET THUMBNAIL">
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

PHP Code

<?php
if(isset($_POST['get_thumbnail']))
{
    $url=$_POST['url'];
    $fetch=explode("v=", $url);
    $videoid=$fetch[1];
    echo '<img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/'.$videoid.'/0.jpg" width="250"/>';
}
?>

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