How to enjoy YouTube automatic screen captures

We often need to make screen captures of the videos we watch in YouTube and we don’t have any program that can do it, such as WinSnap and HyperSnap-dx. You can get through this issue with YouTube automatic screen captures.

YouTube makes these screen captures with the aim of using them in its own portal as a preview image to identify the video or to display in the player while the video is not being played. These 4 automatic captures are available in different sizes depending on the use you want to give them.

We can access this tool very easily. First, we must extract the ID of the video from its URL. To do so, we must select the 11 characters that come after http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=.

Finally, there are some default addresses for making captures:

http://img.youtube.com/vi/……….. /0.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/……….. /1.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/……….. /2.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/……….. /3.jpg

We must replace the dotted line with the video ID in the previous addresses and we will get a fast screen capture in YouTube.

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