[suggestion] Use YouTube video poster instead of actual video page screenshot

[nhoizey]

Trying to get a screenshot of a YouTube video page often fails even after a 10 seconds timeout, because the SPA site is reaaaaly slow and heavy. 🤷‍♂️

As poster image URLs are predictable with just the video ID, I guess it could be possible to use the largest one as the “screenshot”.

The large poster URL is https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/maxresdefault.jpg

For example https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Z_MG97DzNPs/maxresdefault.jpg for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_MG97DzNPs

[nhoizey]

Related: https://fosstodon.org/@eleventy/113629081160401464

[zachleat]

I think my issue here is that the OpenGraph Image api should be used instead? Related: 11ty/api-opengraph-image#1

Notably, this special case would only work for the opengraph size only?

[nhoizey]

@zachleat I'm also not sure it's the best solution, but I've not been able to use this service for YouTube pages at all, always getting errors, so I believe there should be a native solution in the service.

Using the poster image still feels like the least dumb idea… 😅

I temporarily tried to use the service only for non YouTube URLs, but I had issues with other pages too (all SPAs I think… 😞), so I reverted to using thum.io… 😭