Allow loading of higher resolution thumbnail

[emyller]

By default, embed-video loads thumbnails from YouTube based on the following format: '{protocol}://img.youtube.com/vi/{code}/hqdefault.jpg'.

It would be very good if I could load a higher-res thumbnail. The following string format could be used: '{protocol}://img.youtube.com/vi/{code}/maxresdefault.jpg'.

[yetty]

Great improvement, thank you.

[yetty]

It seems maxresdefault is not available for all video.

https://img.youtube.com/vi/f-5wKbynvD0/maxresdefault.jpg https://img.youtube.com/vi/f-5wKbynvD0/hqdefault.jpg

[emyller]

Thanks for the change. :)

Sad fact. Do you think it's worthy to check HTTP status code on maxresdefault - without downloading! - then fallback to hqdefault?

[yetty]

I am not sure, if status code can be resolved without downloading whole response. If there is a way, feel free to implement it or give some information, how to do it. Downloading whole image is quite heavy solution for getting only thumbnail url.

[emyller]

Okay, I'll try to find/do something.

[DiogoMarques29]

Hi How about this? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6471275/python-script-to-see-if-a-web-page-exists-without-downloading-the-whole-page?answertab=active#tab-top

This is a way to check if status code is < 400 without downloading the whole page.

[DiogoMarques29]

Hi again

I have found a better solution that works like this:

def checkUrl(url):
    import requests
    r = requests.head(url)
    return int(r.status_code) < 400

[yetty]

Great! Can you create a pull request with this improvement?

[DiogoMarques29]

I will as soon as i have some time. Got any ideia when a new release will be available?

[yetty]

As soon as the support for Django 1.9 will be added + this functionality, too.