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A content database for Minetest mods, games, and more
https://content.minetest.net
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Add previews to YouTube embeds #359

Closed rubenwardy closed 1 month ago

rubenwardy commented 2 years ago

Currently, the icon is a blank background. It should use a preview without exposing the user to Google tracking

rubenwardy commented 1 year ago

This isn't that hard: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2068344/how-do-i-get-a-youtube-video-thumbnail-from-the-youtube-api

  1. Add new endpoint /thumbnails/yt/<id>/ that fetches the given video id thumbnail from https://img.youtube.com/vi/
  2. Use it in the package view video embed