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jbreed / yt-thumbnail-upload

Simple script leveraging Google's YouTube v3 API to update a YouTube thumbnail (including YouTube shorts)
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Sadly doesnt appear to work anymore #1

Open tjcooney opened 2 months ago

tjcooney commented 2 months ago

Thanks for making this tool! It looks like it will upload a new thumbnail to the youtube studio backend, but the front end doesn't update to what you upload. In fact it just selects a random frame from the video. I wonder if there is a new trick to this?

jbreed commented 2 months ago

Hmm I haven't checked on this in some time as I no longer need it (not publishing to YT).

Feel free to make adjustments as needed if you find a workaround. If this doesn't work at all, then I may delete this repo.

vinriviere commented 2 months ago

Many thanks for this app. It still works well, as I've been able to change the thumbnail displayed in YouTube Studio for my Short (while this isn't possible with YouTube Studio itself). So this is definitely useful.

However, this doesn't change the actual thumbnail used by Short videos on smartphones. This is an issue specific to Short videos. @tjcooney, can you confirm that you you also tested on Shorts?