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TIL about a bookmarklet that takes you directly to a YouTube video's thumbnail

gist.github.com Bookmarklet: display maximum resolution YouTube thumbnail

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Bookmarklet: display maximum resolution YouTube thumbnail

Very handy for posting videos to Lemmy, when you need to specify the Thumbnail URL. Found here: https://gist.github.com/huphtur/5557258

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  • Oh this would be amazing, I was using a third party site.

    Would it be possible to get a similar one for the dearrowed version? That was a complaint I got once but didn't have an easy a solution for: https://lemmy.ca/post/31890393

    https://dearrow.ajay.app/

    • Sorry, I wasn't able to find a way to do what DeArrow does. I found some code for one here: https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/Community#Bookmarklets

      But when I tried it, I got "server refused to generate thumbnail." Not sure how to go about fixing it, I'm a bit out of my depth :(

      • It actually worked for me, thank you for finding that!

        I also saw the error message where the thumbnail should be:

        But if you click on the time stamp down below, you get an image:

        Pasted the image below: