I use the Youtube API to integrate content into my site. But, it doesn't provide any good snapshots of the videos. It provides a few very low quality snapshots that are virtually unusable.
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/0.jpg
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/1.jpg
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/2.jpg
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/3.jpg
For example: https://img.youtube.com/vi/XdwaASKJGxo/1.jpg creates the following:
This snapshot is such low quality it's unusable. So I need to make my own!
My goal is to have a unique thumbnail/preview for each video. I would like to programmatically take 3 snapshots of the video within the middle of the video to avoid intros/outros. Then I would like to take these snapshots and generate a GIF.
I know how to generate a GIF using PHP, but I cannot find a way to take snapshots of a video.
Is it possible to do this using PHP or Python? Or any other code for that matter.
Example:
from Take snapshots of Youtube videos to create a preview GIF programatically
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