diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py | 7 |
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 |