i have been going through a lot of video plugins and I cant find what I want so before I settle with what I have found I figured it may be worth asking everyone here.
I am trying to create video galleries, not of videos from my channel but videos of other channels.
What I wouuld like to do is create a category for each youtube channel I am going to be using. Then I want to create a post for each video. All of this I can do with no issues…. …but then the featured image for each of those posts is not the thumbnail of the video being used… its just a generic icon rather than an actual image.. Id like a thumbnail of the video be used to create a featured image for use on the front page.. whether in a recent post widget or a blog roll…. Id also like each individual video post to have the ability to have comments.
I guess the issue I am having is finding a plugin that will auto generate a thumbnail for each video..
anyone have any ideas or advice on where i can find such a plugin?
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Each YouTube video has 4 generated images. They are predictably formatted as follows:
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/0.jpg
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/1.jpg
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/2.jpg
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/3.jpg
The first one in the list is a full size image and others are thumbnail images. The default thumbnail image (ie. one of 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg) is:
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/default.jpg
For the high quality version of the thumbnail use a url similar to this:
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/hqdefault.jpg
There is also a medium quality version of the thumbnail, using a url similar to the HQ:
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/mqdefault.jpg
For the standard definition version of the thumbnail, use a url similar to this:
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/sddefault.jpg
For the maximum resolution version of the thumbnail use a url similar to this:
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/maxresdefault.jpg
All of the above urls are available over http too. Additionally, the slightly shorter hostname i3.ytimg.com works in place of img.youtube.com in the example urls above.
Alternatively, you can use the YouTube Data API (v3) to get thumbnail images.
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