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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
index 7a2a8a4f8..e2296d153 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -473,7 +473,12 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
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