# How to get thumbnail from vod URL?

**URL:** <https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/how-to-get-thumbnail-from-vod-url/6581>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [June 18, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/how-to-get-thumbnail-from-vod-url/6581 "2016-06-18T13:59:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![fent](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/fent/32/1723_2.png) [@fent](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/fent)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/how-to-get-thumbnail-from-vod-url/6581/1 "2016-06-18T13:59:45Z")

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Is there a way to get the thumbnail of a video by its id, without querying the API for the video metadata?

For example, the following video [https://www.twitch.tv/ogre2/v/73021329](https://www.twitch.tv/ogre2/v/73021329)  
Has the thumbnail

```
https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/v1/AUTH_system/vods_ef6e/ogre2_21894199200_471034537//thumb/thumb73021329-320x240.jpg
```

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**Author:** ![BarryCarlyon](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/barrycarlyon/32/253_2.png) [@BarryCarlyon](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/BarryCarlyon)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/how-to-get-thumbnail-from-vod-url/6581/2 "2016-06-18T14:03:35Z")

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You would need to grab the ID and the character from the URL in this case `v` and `73021329` and look it up on the API as per [https://github.com/justintv/Twitch-API/blob/master/v3\_resources/videos.md#get-videosid](https://github.com/justintv/Twitch-API/blob/master/v3_resources/videos.md#get-videosid)

Which results in: [https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/videos/v73021329](https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/videos/v73021329)

And you can use the `thumbnails` from the response

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**Author:** ![fent](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/fent/32/1723_2.png) [@fent](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/fent)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 12:25am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/how-to-get-thumbnail-from-vod-url/6581/3 "2016-06-19T00:25:41Z")

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I was trying to avoid having to use the API, but it’ll have to do.

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**Author:** ![BarryCarlyon](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/barrycarlyon/32/253_2.png) [@BarryCarlyon](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/BarryCarlyon)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 3:27pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/how-to-get-thumbnail-from-vod-url/6581/4 "2016-06-19T15:27:02Z")

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Everything about everything is in a API somewhere. 😛

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**Author:** ![system](https://d2opxh93rbxzdn.cloudfront.net/original/2X/0/05909729875cce3b53e59d5561c4d23bb14948fc.png) [@system](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 3:35pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/how-to-get-thumbnail-from-vod-url/6581/5 "2016-07-19T15:35:12Z")

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