YouTube Thumbnail Grabber

Thumbnail Grabber

Paste a YouTube link and the thumbnail loads automatically. No button to click.

Video URL

YouTube link or video ID

Works with standard links, Shorts, live stream links, youtu.be links, and Studio links. Extra text pasted along with the link, like a copied video title, is ignored automatically.

Thumbnail Size

Resolution

The recommended option downloads a 1920 x 1080 file upscaled from the best native thumbnail YouTube has for the video. Native YouTube thumbnails top out at 1280 x 720, so anything above that size is enlarged rather than a source file from YouTube.

Other Auto-Generated Frames

These are YouTube's four auto-picked video frames (0 to 3), not the custom thumbnails a creator uploads. There is no public way to pull the specific images used in a thumbnail A/B test. YouTube does not expose that data anywhere outside Studio, so no downloader, including this one, can show it.

Live Preview

Click the image to view it full screen.

Paste a YouTube URL on the left to see its thumbnail here.

Live Preview

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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

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