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Getting Youtube and Vimeo Images for your Thumbnails
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YouTube
Youtube videos have several static images that represent it.
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http://img.youtube.com/vi/KaOC9danxNo/0.jpg
Vimeo
For Vimeo it's a little bit trickier.
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You can pull this xml document:
https://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/175266909.xml
You Or, you can get the data returned as JSON as well.:
https://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/175266909.json
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Pulling the largest thumbnail from the XML XML:
<thumbnail_large>https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/582362777_640.webp</thumbnail_large>
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Just changing the extension will load other formats.:
https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/582362777_640.jpg
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