From fccf502118466bbfde7c5c6dd0279f0dfdb1311c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pukkandan Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 14:55:28 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] [youtube] Populate `thumbnail` with the best "known" thumbnail Closes #402, Related: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/340#issuecomment-950290624 --- yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py index 6a7a2ce1a..658b45fe1 100644 --- a/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py +++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py @@ -2696,6 +2696,8 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor): thumbnails.append({ 'url': thumbnail_url, }) + original_thumbnails = thumbnails.copy() + # The best resolution thumbnails sometimes does not appear in the webpage # See: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29049, https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/340 # List of possible thumbnails - Ref: @@ -2706,7 +2708,6 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor): 'default', '1', '2', '3' ] n_thumbnail_names = len(thumbnail_names) - thumbnails.extend({ 'url': 'https://i.ytimg.com/vi{webp}/{video_id}/{name}{live}.{ext}'.format( video_id=video_id, name=name, ext=ext, @@ -2716,6 +2717,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor): i = next((i for i, t in enumerate(thumbnail_names) if f'/{video_id}/{t}' in thumb['url']), n_thumbnail_names) thumb['preference'] = (0 if '.webp' in thumb['url'] else -1) - (2 * i) self._remove_duplicate_formats(thumbnails) + self._downloader._sort_thumbnails(original_thumbnails) category = get_first(microformats, 'category') or search_meta('genre') channel_id = str_or_none( @@ -2745,6 +2747,9 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor): 'title': self._live_title(video_title) if is_live else video_title, 'formats': formats, 'thumbnails': thumbnails, + # The best thumbnail that we are sure exists. Prevents unnecessary + # URL checking if user don't care about getting the best possible thumbnail + 'thumbnail': traverse_obj(original_thumbnails, (-1, 'url')), 'description': video_description, 'upload_date': unified_strdate( get_first(microformats, 'uploadDate')