But Adrian explained to me that way to go about it conceptually was to create a hook before you save the page, get the image from Vimeo or whoever, and use the PW API to save this to an image field.Īhhh.

I initially thought that we needed to modify Ryans oembed module. So i thought after doing this the manual way, surely the video hosters might give you a way of extracting an image from the video and sure enough, looking at the Vimeo API, they did.Īnd so I wrote to Adrian asking him if he could help me / point me into the right direction as to how to go about doing this. but the first thing I thought of to do all this was create an image field and then looked for a screen capture program that could take a picture of the oembeded video showing on my page at full size, and then manually feeding that screen grab into a custom image field for the page to subsequently display it resized into a thumbnail. The thing that was missing / needed imho was a way of automatically fetching the thumbnails of these videos so that when we create a list of video episodes with a title and description, we could make these excerpts and our page of results way more interesting and media rich by displaying a thumbnail of our video as well!! The oembed module from Ryan makes it so easy to just copy the url and paste it into our text editor. I'm trying to create a site that will help categorize and show videos from my Vimeo account. I am so so so grateful to Adrian for having created this! Wow! Isn't this a truely amazing community!!!

Thumbnail grabber