[youtube] ytdl doesn't find the higher resolution thumbnail
Author: light-and-rayCreated May 15, 2021Updated Sep 28, 2026
Checklist
- I'm reporting a broken site support
- I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2021.04.26
- I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
- I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
- I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
Verbose log
neon@neon-81de:~$ youtube-dl -v --list-thumbnail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Od1VaDL090
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--list-thumbnail', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Od1VaDL090']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.04.26
[debug] Python version 3.8.5 (CPython) - Linux-5.4.0-73-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.29
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.4, ffprobe 4.2.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] 5Od1VaDL090: Downloading webpage
[info] Thumbnails for 5Od1VaDL090:
ID width height URL
0 168 94 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5Od1VaDL090/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEbCKgBEF5IVfKriqkDDggBFQAAiEIYAXABwAEG&rs=AOn4CLBJ8ycGGlLb-0nTAlKNHmB3huZ_-w
1 196 110 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5Od1VaDL090/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEbCMQBEG5IVfKriqkDDggBFQAAiEIYAXABwAEG&rs=AOn4CLB9MNRm2RlvsAXzYathcn3dPIjz8g
2 246 138 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5Od1VaDL090/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEcCPYBEIoBSFXyq4qpAw4IARUAAIhCGAFwAcABBg==&rs=AOn4CLDirr0181RtM6nBIGlQRMsf2sGzOA
3 336 188 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5Od1VaDL090/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEcCNACELwBSFXyq4qpAw4IARUAAIhCGAFwAcABBg==&rs=AOn4CLBwKvPHn9PwnohyHZcBBPvMUSBkbA
Description
This video has the thumbnail with a higher resolution (1280x720): https://img.youtube.com/vi/5Od1VaDL090/maxresdefault.jpg , but youtube-dl doesn't find its
I used this site https://alexbruni.ru/youtube2images/video.php?v=5Od1VaDL090
Source: ytdl-org/youtube-dl