YouTube makes available a set of different-sized thumbnails for every video through its API, but sometimes you just need to grab 'em and go. So I made a plain-jane widget to grab what's available, at-a-glance, for any given YT URL. Enjoy!

  • Tim K

    did you just make a Jake and the Neverland Pirates reference?

    I see what you did there.

  • johnbiggs

    Whatever, man. This is where it’s at: http://bigwidelogic.com/tools/getyt.php

    • MonkeyBoy

      Huh? I tried submitting (1) and all it gave me was something I can’t  link here apparently because it contains an internal “http”.
      and all it gave me was the “maxresdefault” dummy image (that I also can;t link here) returned by the BoingBoing app. BoingBoing also gave me real images ending in “0″, “1″, “2″, “3″, “hqdefault.”, and “mqdefault”.

      WHY CAN’T I LINK ANY OF THE BoingBoing results here without the blog software saying it failed to upload an image?

      (1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akHq3p5QlCka

      http://img.youtube.com/vi/akHq3p5QlCk/3.jpg

  • http://www.facebook.com/mathsmath Matt Smith

    Cool tool! Though it seems to not like any additional parameters before the “v” param in the querystring.

    For example, this link doesn’t bring up any results in Chrome:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JIFq2beNWAc

    but this one does:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIFq2beNWAc