YoutubeIE: extract the thumbnail in the best possible quality

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Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz 2013-07-07 21:21:15 +02:00
parent 9d7b44b4cc
commit 7763b04e5f

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@ -473,7 +473,12 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
video_title = compat_urllib_parse.unquote_plus(video_info['title'][0])
# thumbnail image
if 'thumbnail_url' not in video_info:
# We try first to get a high quality image:
m_thumb = re.search(r'<span itemprop="thumbnail".*?href="(.*?)">',
video_webpage, re.DOTALL)
if m_thumb is not None:
video_thumbnail = m_thumb.group(1)
elif 'thumbnail_url' not in video_info:
self._downloader.report_warning(u'unable to extract video thumbnail')
video_thumbnail = ''
else: # don't panic if we can't find it