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STiGYFishh
STiGYFishh

Reputation: 788

Retrieve 16:9 youtube thumbnails instead of the 4:3 black bordered ones?

I'm trying to use PHP to retrieve a list of recent uploaded videos from a Youtube channel however the thumbnails are all in 4:3 format with black borders at the top and bottom. I am using the following to retrieve the thumbnails:

$thumbnail = (string)$media->group->thumbnail[0]->attributes()->url;

and this to import them:

<img src="<?php echo $thumbnail;?>"/>

The youtube API website and various other Q&A websites say you can use the variable 

yt:name='mqdefault'

to retrieve the 16:9 thumbnails with no borders, however I have no clue where to incorporate this into the PHP?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5692

Answers (1)

dxritchie
dxritchie

Reputation: 138

http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/mqdefault.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/maxresdefault.jpg

You would need you url to look similar to one of those. Not sure what: (string)$media->group->thumbnail[0]->attributes()->url; is returning but I would take a look at that URL and make sure it resembles something similar to above.

For you below example you want you URL to resemble this.

http://img.youtube.com/vi/0GQPoyMr30o/mqdefault.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/0GQPoyMr30o/maxresdefault.jpg

Try doing something like this:

<?php 
$thumbnail = (string)$media->group->thumbnail[0]->attributes()->url;
$thumbnail = str_replace('0.jpg', 'mqdefault.jpg', $thumbnail);
?>

<img src="<?php echo $thumbnail; ?>" />

Upvotes: 10

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