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Get the youtube video thumbnail url template filter

Author:
fitoria
Posted:
October 16, 2010
Language:
Python
Version:
Not specified
Tags:
thumbnail template-filter youtube
Score:
2 (after 2 ratings)

It gets the thumbnail picture url from a youtube video url.

Example <img src="{{vide.url|youthumbnail:'s'}}">

It supports 2 sizes small(s) and large (l)

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from urlparse import parse_qs
from django import template
from django.template.defaultfilters import stringfilter

register = template.Library()

@stringfilter
def youthumbnail(value, args):
    '''returns youtube thumb url
    args s, l (small, large)'''
    qs = value.split('?')
    video_id = parse_qs(qs[1])['v'][0]

    if args == 's':
        return "http://img.youtube.com/vi/%s/2.jpg" % video_id
    elif args == 'l':
        return "http://img.youtube.com/vi/%s/0.jpg" % video_id
    else:
        return None

register.filter('youthumbnail', youthumbnail)

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Comments

maccesch (on May 31, 2011):

thanks for the snippet. you should also tag it django :)

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