#Introduction With JsYouThumb library you can get all the generated thumbnail images for a specific YouTube video. JsYouThumb is designed to work with pure JavaScript, you don't need any other library to make it work.

#Installation You can simply install with:

• Install with Bower: bower install js.youthumb

Or you can directly download the complete library and include the JsYouThumb.js

<script type="text/javascript" src="./../src/JsYouThumb.js"></script>

#Usage Below you can see how fast and simple JsYouThumb is:

//create the JsYouThumb object, you only need the video id
var thumb = new JsYouThumb('IdLHAqL8KJw');

//create a new image with the high resolution thumbnail
document.getElementById('thumb-div').innerHTML = thumb.getImg('high');

//you can also get the normal thumbnail url and replace the existing image src attribute
document.getElementById('image-one').src = thumb.getUrl('normal');

#Available Thumbnail Dimensions JsYouThumb is able to get all the thumbnails generated for a YouTube video. When you call JsYouThumb you need to specify the quality key, if this is not available or not valid normal is used as default. Below are listed all the different sizes.

Quality key	YouTube key	Thumb Resolution [px]	Thumb Format
normal	default	120x90	jpg
high	hqdefault	480x360	jpg
medium	mqdefault	320x180	jpg
standard	sddefault	640x480	jpg
max	maxresdefault	up to 1920x1080	jpg
player	0	480x360	jpg
start	1	120x90	jpg
middle	2	120x90	jpg
end	3	120x90	jpg

##License

Code released under the MIT license.