How To Find A YouTube Thumbnail (2024)

In this guide, we’re teaching you how to:

• Find the thumbnail of a YouTube video
• Get someone’s thumbnail
• Extract images from any video

Related: How to find the origin of a thumbnail.

How to find the thumbnail of a YouTube video

1. Open a YouTube video
2. Copy the video’s ID: everything after “watch?=”
3. Paste it here: https://img.youtube.com/vi/videoID/maxresdefault.jpg
4. Hit Enter

You can then download the thumbnail at its highest quality.

Related: How to open any thumbnail in full-size.

Another Method

1. Copy a video’s URL (Link)
2. Go to Youthumb.net
3. Paste it there → You’ve found the thumbnail

Youthumb is a simple tool — there’s many like it, though this one is very easy to use.

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