thumbnails for external videos

  • Write a script to automatically download thumbnails for all embedded videos. The filename should be the youtube ID:
https://img.youtube.com/vi/ID/maxresdefault.jpg
  • Download the thumbnails
  • Create thumbnail-vid shortcode (Disclaimer message + clickable image that opens video at timestamp in separate tab)
  • Adapt dummy_for_hugo.md (replace youtube shortcode by thumbnail-vid)
  • Adapt build_md.py (assuming that the youtube-thumbnail shortcode will need two arguments: one including the timestamp and one only with the id or name of the image ID.jpg)
  • Adapt documentation (users should know about the difference between thumbnails and youtube embedding)
Edited by Fabian Nuraddin Alexander Gabel