How To Get Youtube Video Thumbnail From URL In PHP - Laravel

How To Get Youtube Video Thumbnails From URL In PHP - Laravel; In this post, I will give you a custom-made PHP function for getting a youtube thumbnail image from the video youtube URL. With the help of the given PHP Function pass a youtube URL and the function will return a thumbnail image URL. You can use this function in laravel also.

To get Youtube thumbnail image URL from the video you need to take the help of the below-suggested function in your PHP or laravel application. In this function, you can still make manually changes according to your requirement.

Thumbnail image URL from youtube video URL this function will find out and return image URL. This function is easy and very simple to understand or make customization according to requirements.

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Just copy this PHP function for getting the thumbnail image URL from the youtube video. In this function, we will pass an argument. The argument is Youtube video URL and this function will make a youtube thumbnail image URL from the video URL and return it.

<?php

function parseVideos($videoString = null){
    
    // RETURN DATA
    $videos = array();
    if (!empty($videoString)) {
        // SPLIT ON LINE BREAKS
        $videoString = stripslashes(trim($videoString));
        $videoString = explode("\n", $videoString);
        $videoString = array_filter($videoString, 'trim');
        // CHECK EACH VIDEO FOR PROPER FORMATTING
        foreach ($videoString as $video) {
            // CHECK FOR IFRAME TO GET THE VIDEO URL
            if (strpos($video, 'iframe') !== FALSE) {
                // RETRIEVE THE VIDEO URL
                $anchorRegex = '/src="(.*)?"/isU';
                $results = array();
                if (preg_match($anchorRegex, $video, $results)) {
                    $link = trim($results[1]);
                }
            } else {
                // WE ALREADY HAVE A URL
                $link = $video;
            }
            // IF WE HAVE A URL, PARSE IT DOWN
            if (!empty($link)) {
                // INITIAL VALUES
                $video_id = NULL;
                $videoIdRegex = NULL;
                $results = array();
                // CHECK FOR TYPE OF YOUTUBE LINK
                if (strpos($link, 'youtu') !== FALSE) {
                    if (strpos($link, 'youtube.com') !== FALSE) {
                        if (strpos($link, 'youtube.com/watch') !== FALSE) {
                            $videoIdRegex = '/[\?\&]v=([^\?\&]+)/';
                        }else{
                            // works on:
                            // http://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEOID
                            // http://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEOID?modestbranding=1&rel=0
                            // http://www.youtube.com/v/VIDEO-ID?fs=1&hl=en_US
                            ///[\?\&]v=([^\?\&]+)/
                            $videoIdRegex = '/youtube.com\/(?:embed|v){1}\/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)\??/i';
                        }
                    } else if (strpos($link, 'youtu.be') !== FALSE) {
                        // works on:
                        // http://youtu.be/daro6K6mym8
                        $videoIdRegex = '/youtu.be\/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)\??/i';
                    }
                    if ($videoIdRegex !== NULL) {
                        if (preg_match($videoIdRegex, $link, $results)) {
                            $video_str = 'https://www.youtube.com/embed/%s?autoplay=0';
                            $thumbnail_str = 'http://img.youtube.com/vi/%s/2.jpg';
                            $fullsize_str = 'http://img.youtube.com/vi/%s/0.jpg';
                            $video_id = $results[1];
                            $video_type = 'youtube';
                        }
                    }
                }
                // CHECK IF WE HAVE A VIDEO ID, IF SO, ADD THE VIDEO METADATA
                if (!empty($video_id)) {
                    // add to return
                    $videos = array(
                        'url' => sprintf($video_str, $video_id),
                        'thumbnail' => sprintf($fullsize_str, $video_id),
                        'video_type' => sprintf($video_type, $video_id),
                    );
                }else{
                    $videos = array(
                        'url' => null,
                        'thumbnail' => null,
                        'video_type' => '0',
                    );
                }
            }
        }
    }
    // RETURN ARRAY OF PARSED VIDEOS
    return $videos;
}

$response = parseVideos('YOUTUBE URL');

// RESPONS OUTPUT

[
  "url" => "" // VIDEO URL
  "thumbnail" => "" // VIDEO THUMBNAIL
  "video_type" => "youtube"
]

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