tuber (version 2.0.0)

get_video_thumbnails: Get video thumbnails information

Description

Retrieves thumbnail URLs and metadata for videos.

Usage

get_video_thumbnails(
  video_ids,
  size = NULL,
  simplify = TRUE,
  auth = "key",
  ...
)

Value

A tidy data frame with one row per video and thumbnail size when `simplify = TRUE`; otherwise the raw videos-list response.

Arguments

video_ids

Video ID or vector of video IDs.

size

Thumbnail size: "default", "medium", "high", "standard", "maxres"

simplify

Whether to return a simplified data frame

auth

Authentication method: "token" (OAuth2) or "key" (API key)

...

Additional arguments passed to tuber_GET

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Get all thumbnail sizes for a video
thumbs <- get_video_thumbnails("dQw4w9WgXcQ")

# Get only high resolution thumbnails
thumbs_hd <- get_video_thumbnails("dQw4w9WgXcQ", size = "high")

# Get thumbnails for multiple videos
thumbs_batch <- get_video_thumbnails(c("dQw4w9WgXcQ", "M7FIvfx5J10"))
}