How to get YouTube Video Thumbnail
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Get YouTube video thumbnail using PHP

Ankit

welcome back to shortlearner.com , in our previous post we learn how to convert YouTube URL to embed URL PHP.in this post we will see how to Get YouTube video thumbnail and use it with PHP
so in the below code we explode the URL and create a link which will show the thumbnail of individual video id and use it on img tag.

How to get YouTube Video Thumbnail

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<?php
$text = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74WSXAFXoDk";
$video_id = explode("?v=", $text);
$video_id = $video_id[1];
$thumbnail="http://img.youtube.com/vi/".$video_id."/maxresdefault.jpg";
echo "<img src='$thumbnail'>";
?>