Craft YT Thumbs plugin for Craft CMS 3.x

Use the YouTube Data API to get video thumbnail from video URL

Requirements

This plugin requires Craft CMS 3.0.0 or later.

Installation

To install the plugin, follow these instructions.

1. Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

    cd /path/to/project
   

2. Then tell Composer to load the plugin:

    composer require sampsonpete/craft-yt-thumbs
   

3. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for Craft YT Thumbs.

Craft YT Thumbs Overview

This plugin uses the YouTube Data API to get video thumbnails from YouTube videos. Other plugins that get videos from YouTube don’t use the Data API and so YouTube rejects the unauthenticated thumbnail calls when over a certain limit. Using this plugin gets around this limit.

Configuring Craft YT Thumbs

Add your YouTube Data API developer key to the plugin settings screen.

Using Craft YT Thumbs

Pass a YouTube URL to the getYtThumbnail variable and a thumbnail image URL will be returned.

Example:

{% set thumb = craft.videoEmbedder.getYtThumbnail('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtRGeyznv7k') %}

{% if thumb | length %}
    {{ thumb }}
{% endif %}

Output:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HtRGeyznv7k/hqdefault.jpg

Brought to you by Pete Sampson