Long overdue demo for my jQuery YouTube plugin – jYouTube is now available here. The plugin can fetch and get you any YouTube video’s screenshot or thumbnail by its URL or video id.
Here is an example:
// Getting video screenshot by YouTube video ID
$.jYoutube('rSUfWXcNAOw');
// Returns video thumbnail by YouTube video URL
$.jYoutube('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSUfWXcNAOw', 'small');
By default the plugin will return URL of the video screenshot (480×360). If you just need a video thumbnail (120×90) pass an optional second parameter "small".
See the plugin in action on jQuery YouTube demo page.
I hope you will find the plugin useful.