From 7763b04e5fac8b282dcbfcf5329941b485ef541f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Jaime=20Marqui=CC=81nez=20Ferra=CC=81ndiz?= Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 21:21:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] YoutubeIE: extract the thumbnail in the best possible quality --- youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py index 7a2a8a4f8..e2296d153 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py @@ -473,7 +473,12 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor): video_title = compat_urllib_parse.unquote_plus(video_info['title'][0]) # thumbnail image - if 'thumbnail_url' not in video_info: + # We try first to get a high quality image: + m_thumb = re.search(r'', + video_webpage, re.DOTALL) + if m_thumb is not None: + video_thumbnail = m_thumb.group(1) + elif 'thumbnail_url' not in video_info: self._downloader.report_warning(u'unable to extract video thumbnail') video_thumbnail = '' else: # don't panic if we can't find it