YouTube Thumbnail Extractor
Extract YouTube video and Shorts thumbnail URLs locally, preview available quality levels, and copy direct image, Markdown, or HTML snippets.
- Video ID
- dQw4w9WgXcQ
- Canonical URL
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Thumbnail qualities
Max-resolution thumbnails only load when YouTube generated that size for the video.
How to use
- 1Paste a YouTube watch, youtu.be, Shorts, embed, live URL, or the 11-character video ID.
- 2Let the tool extract the video ID and build available i.ytimg.com thumbnail URLs.
- 3Review max resolution, HQ, MQ, and default preview sizes; 1280x720 may not exist for every video.
- 4Copy the direct image URL, Markdown, or HTML snippet for the size you need.