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san

Reputation: 1835

Android: Is there a way we can get the thumbnail of the web video from the URL

I know I can get the thumbnail for youtube URLs. But There are tons and tons of video streaming in the web. How can we get the thumbnail of the web Video URL. Any ideas guys.

This shows how to create thumbnails for local videos.

P.S. Wonder how Facebook does that.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1639

Answers (1)

Spiros Souliotis
Spiros Souliotis

Reputation: 175

Every video streaming site has its own way of storing thumbs, most of them support it, check for example youtube

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/{VIDEO ID HERE}/hqdefault.jpg

This will return the thumb of the specific video, this could happen but with another call on most streaming video providers, facebook doesn't do that magically, it just supports most of them because facebook knows the way they show thumbs.

Upvotes: 4

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