Download Thumbnail From Youtube Video Using PHP code 2023

Here is a sample PHP code to download the thumbnail of a YouTube video in 2023:

<?php

$video_id = "VIDEO_ID";

$thumbnail_url = "https://img.youtube.com/vi/$video_id/maxresdefault.jpg";

$image = file_get_contents($thumbnail_url);

$fp = fopen("thumbnail.jpg", "w");

fwrite($fp, $image);

fclose($fp);

?>

In this code, you need to replace "VIDEO_ID" with the actual YouTube video ID. The code uses the file_get_contents function to retrieve the image data from the URL and the fopen and fwrite functions to save the image data to a file.

Note: Make sure that your PHP environment has the allow_url_fopen option enabled, as the file_get_contents function requires it to access remote URLs. If this option is disabled, you can use cURL to retrieve the image data instead.

 

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aayan - Nov 22, 2020, 6:48 PM - Add Reply

Great content

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