Get Thumbnail from Youtube using youtube API

If I have a YouTube video URL, is there any way to get the associated thumbnail from the YouTube API using youtube video link?

Answer of course.

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Each YouTube video has 4 generated images. They are predictably formatted as follows:

http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/0.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/1.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/2.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/3.jpg

The first link in the list is a full size image and others are thumbnail images.ie. 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg are thumbnail images. The default thumbnail image (ie. one of 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg) is:

http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/default.jpg

For the maximum resolution version of the thumbnail for the video use a url similar to this:

http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/maxresdefault.jpg

For the high quality version of thumbnail of the video use a url similar to this:

http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/hqdefault.jpg

Also there is a medium quality version of the thumbnail, using a url similar to the High Quality:

http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/mqdefault.jpg

For the standard definition version of thumbnail for the video, use a url as follow:

http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/sddefault.jpg

All of above urls are available over https too. Just change http to https in any of the above urls. Additionally, the slightly shorter hostname i3.ytimg.com works in place of img.youtube.com in this example urls above.

You can also use the YouTube Data API (v3) or the older YouTube API v2.0 to get thumbnail images.

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