How to get the video thumbnail from Dailymotion video from the video id of that video like in youtube?

Question

For youtube I use something like this:

<img class="video-thumbnail" src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/<?php echo $video_id; ?>/0.jpg" alt="" width="190">

where

$video_id is the code of that video from url.

Can I do something similar for Dailymotion videos

score 47 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 19 '17 at 18:22

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You just need to add an extra thumbnail into the link.

Video URL

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/{video_id}

Thumbnail URL

https://www.dailymotion.com/thumbnail/video/{video_id}

edited Aug 19 '17 at 18:22

Matt R. Wilson

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answered Nov 01 '12 at 08:51

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@Hassaan It seems to work, however it redirects to some other url, ie: http://www.dailymotion.com/thumbnail/video/x54ikm8 becomes http://s1.dmcdn.net/fIYxd/320x240-IEj.jpg – PeterM Dec 07 '16 at 10:12
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This was down for 4-5 days but yeah, now its working :) – Muhammad Hassaan Dec 07 '16 at 13:09
This doesn't seem to work for videos uploaded after 10/01/2019. – Rmy5 Oct 03 '19 at 13:54

score 14 · Answer 2 · 2012-11-01T08:58:47.900

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Using the Dailymotion API

https://api.dailymotion.com/video/VIDEO_ID?fields=field1,field2,...

Replace field1,field2 with

thumbnail_large_url (320px by 240px)
thumbnail_medium_url (160px by 120px)
thumbnail_small_url (80px by 60px)

This API request does not require any Access Tokens.

Example : https://api.dailymotion.com/video/xjfn0s?fields=thumbnail_small_url

This HTTP request returns a JSON data with the image link of the video. For processing JSON data check PHP Manual - JSON Decode

EDIT As suggested by Ravi using http://www.dailymotion.com/thumbnail/video/video_id is pretty straight forward. But different resolution images use the API

edited Nov 01 '12 at 08:58

answered Nov 01 '12 at 08:52

Greets, where can I see, the list of all availible field options, if there is even such place? – Max Yari Oct 16 '14 at 16:40
oh, kind of find it, you can just put wrong parameter in field value, and in debug message there is full list of acceptable values – Max Yari Oct 16 '14 at 16:52
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@MaxYari here https://api.dailymotion.com/video/x26ezrb?fields=thumbnail Some size properties are thumbnail_360_url, 480, 720 – Deepak Kamat May 19 '16 at 15:41
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Theses fields are deprecated : https://developer.dailymotion.com/api#playlist-fields-deprecated use : https://api.dailymotion.com/video/xjfn0s?fields=thumbnail_url as described here -> https://developer.dailymotion.com/api#video-fields – sami ghazouane Sep 19 '16 at 08:27
Like Sami said, theses fields are deprecated. You should now use fields `thumbnail_url` or `thumbnail_360_url` or `thumbnail_720_url` and so on. As described [in dailymotion api documentation](https://developer.dailymotion.com/api#video-fields) – Guillaume Gendre Sep 22 '16 at 07:46
To get all possible fields, pass some bogus value - will return error with allowed values, ie: https://api.dailymotion.com/video/xjfn0s?fields=will-give-error – PeterM Dec 07 '16 at 10:15

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 22 '14 at 14:54

$id='xwxadz'; // ID DAILYMOTION EXAMPLE
$thumbnail_medium_url='https://api.dailymotion.com/video/'.$id.'?fields=thumbnail_medium_url';
$json_thumbnail = file_get_contents($thumbnail_medium_url);
$get_thumbnail = json_decode($json_thumbnail, TRUE);
$thumb=$get_thumbnail['thumbnail_medium_url'];
echo $thumb; // Output Example : http://s2.dmcdn.net/BJL4o/160x120-mzR.jpg

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 09 '16 at 07:23

Just a simpler way for above objective. Suppose following is the url that I want to download thumbnail

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17pcar_hadoop-tutorial-how-to-index-and-search-data-with-solr_tech

From this url get last string and Extract string id

x17pcar_hadoop-tutorial-how-to-index-and-search-data-with-solr_tech

Now split above string on underscorebasis (_). First one is video id i.e. x17pcar

Now run following url using id to get thumbnail

http://www.dailymotion.com/thumbnail/video/x17pcar

How to get the video thumbnail from Dailymotion video from the video id of that video like in youtube?

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