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Really good idea and well executed. Would you mind saying a few words behind the code?

Do you scrape the whole video, or just the part requested? And is the conversion to gif a library or something you wrote?

I'm totally ignorant when it comes to scraping videos and converting them, but I find it interesting.



I'm also interested in how you're doing this. I also wanted to do youtube previews for a website and this seems strictly superior to the thumbnails they offer :)

Also, why don't you throw Adsense on this page?


AWHH! Thank you :D.

Sure! I will email you about this :D. Cheers


you can also take a look at https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl also to find out how to download Youtube videos




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