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copied!<p>You can use <a href="https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/" rel="noreferrer"><strong>YouTube Data API</strong></a> to retrieve video thumbnails, caption, description, rating, statistics and more. API version 3 requires a key*. Obtain the key and create a <a href="https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/list" rel="noreferrer"><strong>videos: list</strong></a> request:</p> <pre><code>https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?key=YOUR_API_KEY&part=snippet&id=VIDEO_ID </code></pre> <p><strong>Example PHP Code</strong></p> <pre><code>$data = file_get_contents("https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?key=YOUR_API_KEY&part=snippet&id=T0Jqdjbed40"); $json = json_decode($data); var_dump($json->items[0]->snippet->thumbnails); </code></pre> <p><strong>Output</strong></p> <pre><code>object(stdClass)#5 (5) { ["default"]=> object(stdClass)#6 (3) { ["url"]=> string(46) "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/T0Jqdjbed40/default.jpg" ["width"]=> int(120) ["height"]=> int(90) } ["medium"]=> object(stdClass)#7 (3) { ["url"]=> string(48) "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/T0Jqdjbed40/mqdefault.jpg" ["width"]=> int(320) ["height"]=> int(180) } ["high"]=> object(stdClass)#8 (3) { ["url"]=> string(48) "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/T0Jqdjbed40/hqdefault.jpg" ["width"]=> int(480) ["height"]=> int(360) } ["standard"]=> object(stdClass)#9 (3) { ["url"]=> string(48) "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/T0Jqdjbed40/sddefault.jpg" ["width"]=> int(640) ["height"]=> int(480) } ["maxres"]=> object(stdClass)#10 (3) { ["url"]=> string(52) "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/T0Jqdjbed40/maxresdefault.jpg" ["width"]=> int(1280) ["height"]=> int(720) } } </code></pre> <p>* Not only that you need a key, you might be asked for billing information depending on the number of API requests you plan to make. However, few million requests per day are free.</p> <p><a href="http://salman-w.blogspot.com/2010/01/retrieve-youtube-video-title.html" rel="noreferrer">Source article</a>.</p>

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