Roblox Video Thumbnail

Help and Feedback Scripting Support
#1

I am making a YouTube type of game and I need a way to get roblox video thumbnails. Is there anyway to get them?

#2

You mean like the video that plays on the game page of The Wild West?

You can do this by following the pictures below:
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#3

No I mean like, video video. The ones that came to roblox recently. I need a way to get the thumbnail of it.

#4

You can just take the first second of the video pause it instantly with script.
So it’s like a “fake” image.

#5

Anyway to get the actual thumbnail though? Maybe using marketplaceservice or?

#6

I don’t think you can do that.
But try doing some research and if you don’t find anything try my solution.

#7

rbxthumb:// may be the way to do this.

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#8

Yes, you can.

You can use the AssetDelivery API (https://assetdelivery.roblox.com/v1/asset/?id=LibraryID&version=VersionNumber) to get the video file that was uploaded to the ROBLOX site.

Here’s a video that you can rip right now, if you’d like.

Just get the asset ID, insert it into the API, and enter a version number (0 is the latest!) Then, change the file format to .MP4.

The result you get should be this! I hope this helped. :smile:

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#9

He wants the thumbnail of the video to be used in-game, not the video itself. Also, isn’t the format .webm

#10

  1. The first frame of the video should be what the thumbnail of the library page shows. Some programs, like video editors and perhaps even video players, have an option that allows you to save whatever frame you’re currently on in the video. This is as good as it gets, since I don’t believe you can get high quality versions of a library thumbnail.

  2. If it was .webm, then I wouldn’t of said .MP4, right? .webm might work, but I’m too lazy to check at the moment.

#11

All video files on Roblox are stored as .webm from what admins have told us.

While your solution isn’t incorrect the full video will need to be downloaded to memory which doesn’t happen in rbxthumb://

#12

Ah, okay. I just checked, and it seems the video can be downloaded in both .webm and .MP4. The file sizes are the same, and the quality of the video doesn’t differ.

#13

would I just do rbxthumb://id ?

#14

Nevermind I found it, it’s rbxthumb://type=Asset&id=5608268502&w=150&h=150