[CartonHero]

DailyMotion; simplest way to make a direct link to your video:

1) Copy video URL
2) Paste as separate line in your post 
 

[tdotter]

Every video that I click on YouTube now has a url that is https://youtu.be/and so on.I copied a few different links and they all begin with youtu.be.There is no /v/ in the url.I tried a few edits in the URl but it is always displaying the related videos now.
Anyone else experiencing this?
I wish it was the way it used to be where you could open the video in a new window and just copy the link from there.

Mod edit: yes, I remember when all you had to do was copy/paste the URL from the video pop-out window too. I don't know if it's related to what you're witnessing re: URL formatting at Youtube, but for the past few days, when copy/pasting Youtube links into Dirpy for download, they don't work at all, so perhaps Youtube has made some sort of change. -Pal

Other mod edit: if you copy the address from your browser's URL field, it should still be in a format like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BYc9PqMTcU&spfreload=10 (or if you're using a mobile device, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1BYc9PqMTcU&spfreload=10). I only have a problem if I try to copy it via the Share link. –gonZo

[Palomine]

Hmmm... my premature senility must be rearing its ugly head again. There's nothing in your average Youtube link before http, nor is there any rel=0 anymore. So, could my colleague gonZo or someone equally savvy please reiterate/repeat whatever's the best/easiest technique for posting a Youtube video WITHOUT the related/up next stuff on the right side of the page for how YT formats their URLs CURRENTLY? Thanks!

[gonZo]

https://www.youtube.com/v/S6Ec43f1xdU&rel=0

(the "&rel=0" is still necessary because it prevents youtube from displaying related vids after the linked video ends)

Pal testing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doxg9l7IuZc ...no wonder I don't get it. The initial instructions say to "remove all text after rel=0" but that implies there's gonna be a rel=0 in the URL. Which there's not. That link above I just pasted... that's the regular YT link to the regular page display... no way I can remove text after rel=0 since none exists. If I try to ADD "&rel=0" like your example above, it still displays the whole page.

SO, the instructions SHOULD NOW SAY:

Take the original link and ADD "v/" immediately after "www.youtube.com/" and also ADD "&rel=0" to the end of the URL. I'm bolding/sizing this instruction so I can find it again since I know I won't remember. -Pal

[gonZo]

Actually, take the original URL and replace /watch?v= with /v/ and then append &rel=0

[TheZookie007]

Actually, take the original URL and replace /watch?v= with /v/ and then append &rel=0

THIS

[TheZookie007]

And if your URL is via the "share" button and looks like this:

http://youtu.be/something

change it to this:

http://youtube.com/v/something&rel=0

[Liam]

I don't know what's happening with YouTube, or why the URLs behave differently in different browsers.  But I found what I hope is a solution.

This format no longer works:
http://youtube.com/v/VIDEO_ID

This format does work:
http://youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID

...However, adding &rel=0 to the end of the URL breaks it, apparently.

[TheZookie007]

Bumping this from six years ago, for an update:

Here are the links to a video's thumbnails and default image.     

Thumbnails.  There are 3 different ones.  "default" and "2" are the same:   

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http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/default.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/1.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/2.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/3.jpg


Default image.  "0" and "hqdefault" are the same:

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http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/0.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/mqdefault.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/hqdefault.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/maxresdefault.jpg

However, hotlinking any of those using the img tag still produces a small thumbnail and not the bigger image.

Here's how to get bigger size thumbnails.

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http://img.youtube.com/vi/<video-id>/<resolution><image>.jpg
where:
<resolution>
- lowest resolution
sd - Standard Definition
mq - Medium Quality
hq - High Quality
maxres - MAXimum RESolution

<image>
default - Default image (1, 2, 3 shot from video, or custom uploaded)
1 - First shot from video
2 - Second shot from video
3 - Third shot from video

So to get the third thumbnail in the highest resolution:

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http://img.youtube.com/vi/<video-id>/maxres3.jpg
So using this YouTube video of Leanne Crow as an example, here's the code to produce the second thumbnail in high quality:

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http://img.youtube.com/vi/tJr-jbRVeRQ/hq2.jpg
And here is the result: