How to get Youtube Thumbnails [duplicate]

Question

I have made an RSS reader app in Xcode, which gets it's information from a YouTube channel. How can I get the thumbails from the videos?

I am able to use this link: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/mobile/users/HaatFilms/uploads?alt=rss

To get the uploads text, but what would I use to get the thumbnail for each specific video?

But how can I find the Video ID of a Video and then display it in a tableView? — RafeeJ
– RafeeJ, Commented Sep 15, 2013 at 12:29

warpedspeed · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-15 12:42:51Z

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Using the listed RSS feed:

You'll see links that include:

LKk6SvGmJj4

Previous episode: http://youtu.be/LKk6SvGmJj4 http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/mobile/videos/LKk6SvGmJj4

That's the youtube ID.

Take that ID and use it with a straight image tag.

http://img.youtube.com/vi/LKk6SvGmJj4/0.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/LKk6SvGmJj4/1.jpg

Use those images to populate your tables. Personally, I use Afnetworking's UIImageView category.

https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking

 UIImageView *imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, 100.0f, 100.0f)];
 [imageView setImageWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://img.youtube.com/vi/LKk6SvGmJj4/1.jpg"] placeholderImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"placeholder-avatar"]];

answered Sep 15, 2013 at 12:42

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Ayush · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-15 12:40:04Z

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I have used UIImageView+AFNetworking category to load image to an UIImageView. UIImageView+AFNetworking

NSString * youtubeID = @"TJkmc8-eyvE";
NSURL *youtubeURL = [NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://img.youtube.com/vi/%@/0.jpg",youtubeId];

[imageView setImageWithURL:youtubeURL] placeholderImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"placeHolderImage"]];

answered Sep 15, 2013 at 12:40

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RafeeJ Over a year ago

Sorry, I have been busy, When I Tried it.. It didn't work. Am I supposed to add something else other than the stated code above?

Ayush Over a year ago

yeah you need to add afnetworking to load images asynchronous in you app. What error you are getting

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