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		degamad 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fighting with YouTube to show a preview image I generally prefer the oEmbed approach. It's mentioned on the SO question linked in Paul Irish's write-up. I'll throw together a sample at some point.

degamad 4 months ago [–]

So playing around with the goal of "highest quality thumbnail" in mind, I notice that the oEmbed data appears to always return the hqdefault.jpg url, regardless of what's available.

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