maxresdefault thumbnail

[vieditcom]

Method: video.thumbnail_url
Method returns:
(String) — if size is default, the URL of a 120x90px image.
(String) — if size is medium, the URL of a 320x180px image.
(String) — if size is high, the URL of a 480x360px image.
(nil) — if the size is not default, medium or high.
How we can get maxresdefault thumbnail (from "https://img.youtube.com/vi/#{video_id}/maxresdefault.jpg") ?

[kangkyu]

Is there an example video id, if it is okay? I think only some videos have that size thumbnail.

[vieditcom]

Is there an example video id, if it is okay? I think only some videos have that size thumbnail.

I am fetching youtube "mqdefault" thumbnails to show previews of user's videos here: https://www.viedit.com/movies
I tried to fetch maxres thumbs and looks like ~70% has such resolution.
Info from one random movie for example:
https://www.viedit.com/movies/pizza-making-footage

"thumbnails": {
     "default": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QwMuzQk-JTs/default.jpg",
      "width": 120,
      "height": 90
     },
     "medium": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QwMuzQk-JTs/mqdefault.jpg",
      "width": 320,
      "height": 180
     },
     "high": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QwMuzQk-JTs/hqdefault.jpg",
      "width": 480,
      "height": 360
     },
     "standard": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QwMuzQk-JTs/sddefault.jpg",
      "width": 640,
      "height": 480
     },
     "maxres": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QwMuzQk-JTs/maxresdefault.jpg",
      "width": 1280,
      "height": 720
     }
    }

The reasons why this resolution is important:

• it is the best quality thumbnail
• there is no awful black borders (unlike sddefault and hqdefault)

[kangkyu]

Looks like it's working with maxres

> Yt::Video.new(id: "QwMuzQk-JTs").thumbnail_url(:maxres)
"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QwMuzQk-JTs/maxresdefault.jpg"