How to get video thumbnail from YouTube URL and set it to image view in android

Question

I want to create an application in which I want to play YouTube video. I want to get thumbnail from YouTube video URL which I have currently play in application and set it to image view. can any body help me with this.

Answer 1

You can use YouTube API v3 to retrieve related video thumbnail info like title, image and length:

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=contentDetails,snippet&fields=items/snippet(title,thumbnails),items/contentDetails/duration&key={{ YOUR_API_KEY }}&id={{ YOUR_YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID }}

Or this url if you only want to get only thumbnail image with medium size:

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=contentDetails,snippet&fields=items/snippet(title,thumbnails/medium/url),items/contentDetails/duration&key={{ YOUR_API_KEY }}&id={{ YOUR_YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID }}

Your response may look like this:

{
 "items": [
  {
   "snippet": {
    "title": "F..k This S..t I'm Out",
    "thumbnails": {
     "medium": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5FjWe31S_0g/mqdefault.jpg"
     }
    }
   },
   "contentDetails": {
    "duration": "PT25S"
   }
  }
 ]
}