YouTube video thumbnail

Here a little tip/work-around to get a thumbnail from a media available on Youtube.

Based on the url of the YouTube video, you can rebuild it to get a frame from the media :

public string GetMediaThumbnail(string url)
{
     url = url.Split('?')[0];
     url=url.Replace("http://www.youtube.com/v/", "http://img.youtube.com/vi/");
     url += "/1.jpg";
     return url;
}

No pretention about it but to keep in mind…

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