Why?

In writing my previous post about my new Framework 13 laptop, I needed a title image to put up with it. However I didn’t have easy access to the photos I’d taken of my new machine.

As a quick hack, I knew the thumbnail I created had a decent picture, but how could I download it?

I found the following flags for ytdlp:

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yt-dlp --skip-download --write-thumbnail --write-description "URL"

(Where, URL, is the full YouTube video URL)

• --write-thumbnail - Will write the video thumbail to your disk, usually in ‘.webp’ format
• --write-description - Will write a text file of the video description to your disk