How to get YouTube video thumbnail from the YouTube video ID?

How to get YouTube video thumbnail from the YouTube video ID | get a YouTube video thumbnail from the YouTube API | How we can use the YouTube Video ID to Retrieve the Video Thumbnails

As we know each YouTube video has thumbnail images. So here is a quick and very simple tip to get thumbnail images with the help of youtube video id.   


http://img.youtube.com/vi/[your-youtube-video-id]/0.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/[your-youtube-video-id]/1.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/[your-youtube-video-id]/2.jpg

http://img.youtube.com/vi/[your-youtube-video-id]/3.jpg


We have some other options, Please check below examples -


The default thumbnail image is:
http://img.youtube.com/vi/[your-youtube-video-id]/default.jpg

For the high-quality thumbnail:
http://img.youtube.com/vi/[your-youtube-video-id]/hqdefault.jpg

For medium quality thumbnail:
http://img.youtube.com/vi/[your-youtube-video-id]/mqdefault.jpg

For standard definition thumbnail:
http://img.youtube.com/vi/[your-youtube-video-id]/sddefault.jpg

For maximum resolution thumbnail:
http://img.youtube.com/vi/[your-youtube-video-id]/maxresdefault.jpg


What is my Video ID: This is very simple to find YouTube video ID. First, open youtube and go to the YouTube video. Now, Look at the URL of that video, at the end of URL, you can see a combination of numbers and letters after an equal sign (=). This is the video id for that video. Please check id in below image :