The YouTube API has a page for thumbnails and a page for videos. If I want the thumbnails for a certain YouTube video, which API should I be using?
I'm inclined to say the thumbnail API, but I can't figure out how to get information out of it? Can I only set with it? The first bullet point on the thumbnail API docs seems to indicate that I can get images from it:
A resource's snippet.thumbnails property is an object that identifies the thumbnail images available for that resource.
The only method available on thumbnails ressource is set means :
Uploads a custom video thumbnail to YouTube and sets it for a video.
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/thumbnails
So you can't retrieve a thumbnail of a video with the resource thumbnails.
You need to use the ressource videos.list https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/list with paramter snippet and specific videoId