'Q: set thumbnail of a playlist?
Many answers about using the Youtube Data API v3 to get the thumbnail of a playlist; and many answers for how to get or set the thumbnail of a video.
But none about how to set the thumbnail of a playlist. The documentation shows nothing and no searches into the API documentation or Stack Overflow find the question or its answers.
I tried using the thumbnails().set() method for setting thumbnails to videos, but that returns a permission denied error indicating that using playlist IDs in its request for video IDs is not a good monkey patch.
Please help.
Solution 1:[1]
As mentioned in the comments, if you are anyway interested in choosing the playlist thumbnail with a thumbnail video of the playlist in an automatic way:
Go to your playlist webpage: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAYLIST_ID
Open the Network tab of your web-browser by using Ctrl + Shift + E.
Choose a video and "Set as playlist thumbnail".
You should now see a request to edit_playlist, copy it as cURL (by right-clicking).
You can re-execute this cURL request with any playlist id (playlistId in the --data-raw parameter) and any video id of the given playlist (thumbnailVideoId).
Solution 2:[2]
My original question is invalid.
YouTube allows users to set thumbnails of videos to be any properly formatted image. YouTube then only allows users to set a specific video thumbnail as the playlist thumbnail. It is not possible to set an image as the thumbnail of the playlist unless it is a thumbnail of a video in that playlist; and in that use case the video is associated to the playlist for the representative thumbnail.
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