如果你想要YouTube上某个特定视频ID的最大图片，那么URL应该是这样的：

http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/SomeVideoIDHere/0.jpg

使用API，您可以获取默认缩略图图像。简单代码应该是这样的：

//Grab the default thumbnail image
$attrs = $media->group->thumbnail[1]->attributes();
$thumbnail = $attrs['url'];
$thumbnail = substr($thumbnail, 0, -5);
$thumb1 = $thumbnail."default.jpg";

// Grab the third thumbnail image
$thumb2 = $thumbnail."2.jpg";

// Grab the fourth thumbnail image.
$thumb3 = $thumbnail."3.jpg";

// Using simple cURL to save it your server.
// You can extend the cURL below if you want it as fancy, just like
// the rest of the folks here.

$ch = curl_init ("$thumb1");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,1);
$rawdata = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

// Using fwrite to save the above
$fp = fopen("SomeLocationInReferenceToYourScript/AnyNameYouWant.jpg", 'w');

// Write the file
fwrite($fp, $rawdata);

// And then close it.
fclose($fp);

您可以使用YouTube数据API检索视频缩略图、标题、描述、评级、统计信息等。API版本3需要密钥*。获取密钥并创建视频：列表请求：

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?key=YOUR_API_KEY&part=snippet&id=VIDEO_ID

示例PHP代码

$data = file_get_contents("https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?key=YOUR_API_KEY&part=snippet&id=T0Jqdjbed40");
$json = json_decode($data);
var_dump($json->items[0]->snippet->thumbnails);

输出

object(stdClass)#5 (5) {
  ["default"]=>
  object(stdClass)#6 (3) {
    ["url"]=>
    string(46) "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/T0Jqdjbed40/default.jpg"
    ["width"]=>
    int(120)
    ["height"]=>
    int(90)
  }
  ["medium"]=>
  object(stdClass)#7 (3) {
    ["url"]=>
    string(48) "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/T0Jqdjbed40/mqdefault.jpg"
    ["width"]=>
    int(320)
    ["height"]=>
    int(180)
  }
  ["high"]=>
  object(stdClass)#8 (3) {
    ["url"]=>
    string(48) "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/T0Jqdjbed40/hqdefault.jpg"
    ["width"]=>
    int(480)
    ["height"]=>
    int(360)
  }
  ["standard"]=>
  object(stdClass)#9 (3) {
    ["url"]=>
    string(48) "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/T0Jqdjbed40/sddefault.jpg"
    ["width"]=>
    int(640)
    ["height"]=>
    int(480)
  }
  ["maxres"]=>
  object(stdClass)#10 (3) {
    ["url"]=>
    string(52) "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/T0Jqdjbed40/maxresdefault.jpg"
    ["width"]=>
    int(1280)
    ["height"]=>
    int(720)
  }
}

*不仅需要密钥，还可能会根据您计划发出的API请求的数量要求您提供计费信息。然而，每天有几千个请求是免费的。

源文章。

这是我的客户端唯一不需要API密钥的解决方案。

YouTube.parse('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3DGwyl0mJQ').then(_ => console.log(_))

代码：

import { parseURL, parseQueryString } from './url'
import { getImageSize } from './image'

const PICTURE_SIZE_NAMES = [
    // 1280 x 720.
    // HD aspect ratio.
    'maxresdefault',
    // 629 x 472.
    // non-HD aspect ratio.
    'sddefault',
    // For really old videos not having `maxresdefault`/`sddefault`.
    'hqdefault'
]

// - Supported YouTube URL formats:
//   - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My2FRPA3Gf8
//   - http://youtu.be/My2FRPA3Gf8
export default
{
    parse: async function(url)
    {
        // Get video ID.
        let id
        const location = parseURL(url)
        if (location.hostname === 'www.youtube.com') {
            if (location.search) {
                const query = parseQueryString(location.search.slice('/'.length))
                id = query.v
            }
        } else if (location.hostname === 'youtu.be') {
            id = location.pathname.slice('/'.length)
        }

        if (id) {
            return {
                source: {
                    provider: 'YouTube',
                    id
                },
                picture: await this.getPicture(id)
            }
        }
    },

    getPicture: async (id) => {
        for (const sizeName of PICTURE_SIZE_NAMES) {
            try {
                const url = getPictureSizeURL(id, sizeName)
                return {
                    type: 'image/jpeg',
                    sizes: [{
                        url,
                        ...(await getImageSize(url))
                    }]
                }
            } catch (error) {
                console.error(error)
            }
        }
        throw new Error(`No picture found for YouTube video ${id}`)
    },

    getEmbeddedVideoURL(id, options = {}) {
        return `https://www.youtube.com/embed/${id}`
    }
}

const getPictureSizeURL = (id, sizeName) => `https://img.youtube.com/vi/${id}/${sizeName}.jpg`

实用程序image.js：

// Gets image size.
// Returns a `Promise`.
function getImageSize(url)
{
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) =>
    {
        const image = new Image()
        image.onload = () => resolve({ width: image.width, height: image.height })
        image.onerror = reject
        image.src = url
    })
}

实用程序url.js：

// Only on client side.
export function parseURL(url)
{
    const link = document.createElement('a')
    link.href = url
    return link
}

export function parseQueryString(queryString)
{
    return queryString.split('&').reduce((query, part) =>
    {
        const [key, value] = part.split('=')
        query[decodeURIComponent(key)] = decodeURIComponent(value)
        return query
    },
    {})
}

    function get_video_thumbnail( $src ) {
            $url_pieces = explode('/', $src);
            if( $url_pieces[2] == 'dai.ly'){
                $id = $url_pieces[3];
                $hash = json_decode(file_get_contents('https://api.dailymotion.com/video/'.$id.'?fields=thumbnail_large_url'), TRUE);
                $thumbnail = $hash['thumbnail_large_url'];
            }else if($url_pieces[2] == 'www.dailymotion.com'){
                $id = $url_pieces[4];
                $hash = json_decode(file_get_contents('https://api.dailymotion.com/video/'.$id.'?fields=thumbnail_large_url'), TRUE);
                $thumbnail = $hash['thumbnail_large_url'];
            }else if ( $url_pieces[2] == 'vimeo.com' ) { // If Vimeo
                $id = $url_pieces[3];
                $hash = unserialize(file_get_contents('http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/' . $id . '.php'));
                $thumbnail = $hash[0]['thumbnail_large'];
            } elseif ( $url_pieces[2] == 'youtu.be' ) { // If Youtube
                $extract_id = explode('?', $url_pieces[3]);
                $id = $extract_id[0];
                $thumbnail = 'http://img.youtube.com/vi/' . $id . '/mqdefault.jpg';
            }else if ( $url_pieces[2] == 'player.vimeo.com' ) { // If Vimeo
                $id = $url_pieces[4];
                $hash = unserialize(file_get_contents('http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/' . $id . '.php'));
                $thumbnail = $hash[0]['thumbnail_large'];
            } elseif ( $url_pieces[2] == 'www.youtube.com' ) { // If Youtube
                $extract_id = explode('=', $url_pieces[3]);
                $id = $extract_id[1];
                $thumbnail = 'http://img.youtube.com/vi/' . $id . '/mqdefault.jpg';
            } else{
                $thumbnail = tim_thumb_default_image('video-icon.png', null, 147, 252);
            }
            return $thumbnail;
        }

get_video_thumbnail('https://vimeo.com/154618727');
get_video_thumbnail('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwU0I7_5Cmc');
get_video_thumbnail('https://youtu.be/pbzIfnekjtM');
get_video_thumbnail('http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5thjyz');

方法1：

您可以通过JSON页面找到YouTube视频的所有信息，该页面甚至包含“thumbnail_url”，http://www.youtube.com/oembed?format=json&url=｛此处显示您的视频URL｝

像最终的URL外观+PHP测试代码

$data = file_get_contents("https://www.youtube.com/oembed?format=json&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7s-6V_0nwA");
$json = json_decode($data);
var_dump($json);

输出

object(stdClass)[1]
  public 'width' => int 480
  public 'version' => string '1.0' (length=3)
  public 'thumbnail_width' => int 480
  public 'title' => string 'how to reminder in window as display message' (length=44)
  public 'provider_url' => string 'https://www.youtube.com/' (length=24)
  public 'thumbnail_url' => string 'https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_7s-6V_0nwA/hqdefault.jpg' (length=48)
  public 'author_name' => string 'H2 ZONE' (length=7)
  public 'type' => string 'video' (length=5)
  public 'author_url' => string 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9M35YwDs8_PCWXd3qkiNzg' (length=56)
  public 'provider_name' => string 'YouTube' (length=7)
  public 'height' => int 270
  public 'html' => string '<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_7s-6V_0nwA?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>' (length=171)
  public 'thumbnail_height' => int 360

有关详细信息，您还可以查看如何使用id获取YouTube视频缩略图或https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXde7q59BI8视频教程1

方法2：

使用YouTube图像链接，https://img.youtube.com/vi/“在此处插入youtube视频id”/default.jpg

方法3：

使用视频URL链接获取缩略图的浏览器源代码-转到视频源代码并搜索thumbnailur。现在您可以使用此URL您的源代码：

{img src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/"insert-youtube-video-id-here"/default.jpg"}

有关详细信息，您还可以查看如何使用id获取YouTube视频缩略图或https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f6E8MeM6PI视频教程2

我发现了一个很棒的工具，它可以让你用YouTube播放按钮创建图像：

安装在服务器上用于脚本编写：https://github.com/halgatewood/youtube-thumbnail-enhancer