Thumb-Grab

Get thumbnails of YouTube videos in any given playlist, resize them to your custom res of choice.

Orginially built while I was a part of TEDxUTSC and volunteered as a webmaster. This script allowed me to automate the whole process of grabbing thumnails of 160+ TED videos from large youtube playlists, and re-sizing them so they could be displayed on the TEDxUTSC website.

Usage

1. Set up a virtual env for the project once cloned locally
2. pip install -r requirements.txt to grab all requirements to run the script
3. Run the script from your terminal using python thumbgrab.py
4. Enter/Copy paste the Youtube Playlist URL when prompted
5. Follow the prompts to download thumbnails for all videos in the playlist

The thumbnails will be placed in a new folder based on the playlist name within the script directory

1. If you want to resize images to a custom width and height, follow the prompt after
2. Enter respective width and height as necessary for pictures

Resized thumbnails will be placed in the same folder with the word “resized” added to the title.

Sample

Here’s a sample performed on this playlist by TED titled, The 20 Most-Watched TEDTalks

The output of the above demo is available in this repository as a sample within the titled folder.

Dependencies:

• Pafy http://np1.github.io/pafy/
• wget https://bitbucket.org/techtonik/python-wget/src
• Pillow (PIL) https://python-pillow.github.io/