How to get image from youtube and vimeo embedded url?

This tutorial is for getting the image from YouTube and Vimeo embedded URLs using the PHP code without any 3rd party tools. You can just enter the embedded URL in the below code and get an HD image from these two platforms.

Step 1)

Just put this code in your PHP file where you want to get the YouTube and Vimeo embedded URL image in high resolution.

$url2 = "Your youtube and vimeo embedded url here";
$parsed     = parse_url($url2);
$hostname   = $parsed['host']; 
$path       = $parsed['path']; 
if(!empty($hostname)){
  if($hostname=='www.youtube.com' || $hostname=='youtube.com'){
	preg_match('%(?:youtube(?:-nocookie)?\.com/(?:[^/]+/.+/|(?:v|e(?:mbed)?)/|.*[?&]v=)|youtu\.be/)([^"&?/ ]{11})%i', $url2, $match);
	$youtube_id = $match[1];
        $videoID = substr($youtube_id,0,11);
        $video_image_src = "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/".$videoID."/maxresdefault.jpg";
	$video_image_href = "https://www.youtube.com/embed/".$videoID;
}else if($hostname=='player.vimeo.com'){
	preg_match("/vimeo\.com\/(\w+\s*\/?)*([0-9]+)*$/i", $url2, $output_array);
	$vimdeoIDInt = intval($output_array[1]);
	$vimeo = unserialize(file_get_contents("http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/$vimdeoIDInt.php"));
	$small = $vimeo[0]['thumbnail_small'];
	$medium = $vimeo[0]['thumbnail_medium'];
	$large = $vimeo[0]['thumbnail_large'];
        $video_image_src = $large;
	$video_image_href = "https://player.vimeo.com/video/".$vimdeoIDInt; 
 }
echo $video_image_href;
}