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  • mccmcc@mastodon.social
    Nov 14, 2026, 9:15 PM

    There is this app I use to extract thumbnails from youtube videos. It's:

    get-youtube-thumbnail.com/

    It seems to just be like, javascript. It doesn't go on the Internet. I think it runs a regex on the URL.

    Recently, YouTube started letting posters A/B test thumbnails. So on the left (CW: depicts plane crash) you see how a video looked in my recs, and on the right you see the get-youtube-thumbnail thumbnail extracted. Right is "A". Left is "B".

    Does anyone know (App? Process?) how to extract "B"?

    Mentour Pilot youtube link. The thumbnail shows a plane crash in a field and a taxi driver staring at it, with the caption "'WHAT IS THAT?' Luxair Flight 9642".
    The thumbnail from before, but "'WHAT IS THAT?'" has been replaced with "IGNORED RULES"
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  • gyozagyozanoid@mastodon.social
    Nov 15, 2026, 3:07 AM

    @mcc you can use yt-dlp (which has a no AI/LLM policy) with `--list-thumbnails` or `--write-all-thumbnails --skip-download`, but it requires a deno install and deno recently imploded, iirc. might not be a long-term solution

    github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

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