There is this app I use to extract thumbnails from youtube videos. It's:
https://www.get-youtube-thumbnail.com/
It seems to just be like, javascript. It doesn't go on the Internet. I think it runs a regex on the URL.
Recently, YouTube started letting posters A/B test thumbnails. So on the left (CW: depicts plane crash) you see how a video looked in my recs, and on the right you see the get-youtube-thumbnail thumbnail extracted. Right is "A". Left is "B".
Does anyone know (App? Process?) how to extract "B"?
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@mcc you can use yt-dlp (which has a no AI/LLM policy) with `--list-thumbnails` or `--write-all-thumbnails --skip-download`, but it requires a deno install and deno recently imploded, iirc. might not be a long-term solution
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
GitHub - yt-dlp/yt-dlp: A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader