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Old 06-12-2013, 12:32 PM  
Dankasaur
So Fucking Fossilized
 
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Originally Posted by k0nr4d View Post
There is no way to get an image from an embed code short of having your server launch X, load the embed code on an html file in firefox, take a screenshot and then crop that part of the image out. By all means doable for a one-off site but kinda complicated... If you are doing it based on a video page url, you can check if the site has those opengraph tags or whatever they are called in the <head>
Yeah, what I'd most likely incorporate for him is a system that would take the url he inputs and check my database for it and return the url of the thumbnail for him.
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