A better YouTube endpoint to grab media information

[Butch Ewing]

The current YouTube endpoint is:

http://www.youtube.com/oembed?url={:canonical}&format=json

But, the image is only 480 x 270. It would be great if we could use:

http://img.youtube.com/vi/{:id}/maxresdefault.jpg

This would allow a much larger image (906x510).

[Sommerregen]

That's right. Unfortunately, MediaEmbed is currently not as flexible as I wish. Adding a service like Grav\Plugin\MediaEmbed\Services\GitHub should be possible.

However, I strive for a complete rewrite of code base and currently collect ideas.

[Butch Ewing]

I ended up hacking it. I changed the thumbnail function in mediaembed/classes/OEmbed/OEmbed.php to:

  public function thumbnail()
  {
    $thumbnail = '';
    if ($this->oembed) {
        $thumbnail = 'http://img.youtube.com/vi/'.$this->id().'/maxresdefault.jpg';
        //$thumbnail = $this->oembed->get('thumbnail_url', '');
    }
    return $thumbnail;
  }

It works like a charm. Take a look at the large video thumbnail here.