''' Author : Chittaranjan Kumar This script will download the thumbnail of a YouTube video in highest resolution available (1080p) only. ''' # pip install pyfiglet import pyfiglet ascii_banner = pyfiglet.figlet_format("YouTube Thumbnail Downloader") print(ascii_banner) #pip install wget import wget url=raw_input("Enter YouTube URL : ") id = url.split("=",1)[1] thumbnailurl= 'https://img.youtube.com/vi/'+id + '/maxresdefault.jpg' print "Downloading Thumbnail..." thumbnail = wget.download(thumbnailurl) print "\n" + "Thumbnail Downloaded"