Display thumbnail video

Question

Hello everyone In my application, the user will copy and paste the youtube video link into the text box, and as soon as he clicks the add button, I should display a thumbnail of the video.

How to render a video from a YouTube page?

I use jQuery and HTML5 in the interface

Answer 1

There is a jQuery plugin to capture YouTube thumbnails from the URL you provided.

Take a look at: http://custom-drupal.com/jquery-demo/jyoutube/

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jyoutube

Answer 2

It’s very easy to get a YouTube thumbnail.

Consider a typical YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEOCODE

VIDEOCODE URL- :

http://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEOCODE/0.jpg

http://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEOCODE/1.jpg

http://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEOCODE/2.jpg