Getting a Youtube video thumbnail is very easy thanks to YouTube for their predictable format.
http://img.youtube.com/vi/[youtube-video-id]/0.jpg http://img.youtube.com/vi/[youtube-video-id]/1.jpg http://img.youtube.com/vi/[youtube-video-id]/2.jpg http://img.youtube.com/vi/[youtube-video-id]/3.jpg
The first one is a full-size image and rest of them are thumbnails(ie.1,2,3)
The default thumbnail would be, that you see when the video previews.
http://img.youtube.com/vi/[youtube-video-id]/default.jpg
For the high-quality version of the thumbnail use an url similar to this:
http://img.youtube.com/vi/[youtube-video-id]/hqdefault.jpg
There is also a medium quality version of the thumbnail, using an url similar to the HQ:
http://img.youtube.com/vi/[youtube-video-id]/hqdefault.jpg
For the standard definition version of the thumbnail,
http://img.youtube.com/vi/[youtube-video-id]/sddefault.jpg
For the maximum resolution version of the thumbnail use a similar to this:
http://img.youtube.com/vi/[youtube-video-id]/maxresdefault.jpg
You can use https as well with these urls.
In a programming language you can use YouTube data API to pull the thumbnails in effective
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