UX: Fetch higher-resolution youtube thumbnails where available

We have been using YouTube's 'hqdefault.jpg' image which works consistently to provide a 480x360 thumbnail. YouTube does provide larger thumbnails, but not consistently for every video. By using og:image, we will fetch the best resolution YouTube can provide for each video.

This commit also refactors lazy-yt to re-use the thumbnail already existing in the cooked content. This means we get lazy-loading for free, and avoid hotlinking images to YouTube (when download remote images is enabled on the site).
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David Taylor
2020-05-15 17:49:27 +01:00
parent 7edd312f85
commit ac042c2bbe
3 changed files with 35 additions and 12 deletions

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@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ class Onebox::Engine::YoutubeOnebox
video_width = (params['width'] && params['width'].to_i <= 695) ? params['width'] : 480 # embed width
video_height = (params['height'] && params['height'].to_i <= 500) ? params['height'] : 270 # embed height
og = get_opengraph.data
thumbnail_url = og[:image] || "https://img.youtube.com/vi/#{video_id}/hqdefault.jpg"
# Put in the LazyYT div instead of the iframe
escaped_title = ERB::Util.html_escape(video_title)
@ -36,7 +39,7 @@ class Onebox::Engine::YoutubeOnebox
data-height="#{video_height}"
data-parameters="#{embed_params}">
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=#{video_id}" target="_blank">
<img src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/#{video_id}/hqdefault.jpg" width="#{video_width}" height="#{video_height}" title="#{escaped_title}">
<img class="ytp-thumbnail-image" src="#{thumbnail_url}" width="#{video_width}" height="#{video_height}" title="#{escaped_title}">
</a>
</div>
EOF