• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    15 days ago

    Lemmy has had a weird relationship with YouTube for a long time. For a while, it was doing the auto-description in various languages that seemed to change over time. I’m sure it’s entirely on YouTube’s end.

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      15 days ago

      It’s not. I can easily pull the thumbnail image of any YouTube video. Same with yt-dlp.

      For some reason, Lemmy can’t figure out this simple template: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/hq720.jpg