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Get YouTube video thumbnails URL with jQuery

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Lets you get YouTube video scene images by video id or youtube video url using only javascript OR jQuery.

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  1. function getScreen( url, size )
  2. {
  3.   if(url === null){ return ""; }
  4.  
  5.   size = (size === null) ? "big" : size;
  6.   var vid;
  7.   var results;
  8.  
  9.   results = url.match("[\\?&]v=([^&#]*)");
  10.  
  11.   vid = ( results === null ) ? url : results[1];
  12.  
  13.   if(size == "small"){
  14.     return "http://img.youtube.com/vi/"+vid+"/2.jpg";
  15.   }else {
  16.     return "http://img.youtube.com/vi/"+vid+"/0.jpg";
  17.   }
  18. }

URL: http://jquery-howto.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-get-youtube-video-screenshot.html

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