# Add thumbnails for YouTube playlist URLs

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-thumbnails-for-youtube-playlist-urls/152431
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [May 23, 2020, 11:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-thumbnails-for-youtube-playlist-urls/152431 "2020-05-23T11:16:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![D8vid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@D8vid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/D8vid)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2020, 11:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-thumbnails-for-youtube-playlist-urls/152431/1 "2020-05-23T11:16:11Z")

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On latest tests-passed branch, topics with a bare YouTube playlist URL are OneBoxing correctly, but no thumbnail is produced. An example:

[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJtitKU0CAeiFIQUX81qqt4laVWfa-Gtz](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJtitKU0CAeiFIQUX81qqt4laVWfa-Gtz)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLJtitKU0CAeiFIQUX81qqt4laVWfa-Gtz&wmode=transparent&rel=0&autohide=1&showinfo=1&enablejsapi=1

A related question, is it possible to rebake only posts that have no thumbail? i.e. a version of `rake posts:rebake` that includes a query?

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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2020, 10:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-thumbnails-for-youtube-playlist-urls/152431/4 "2020-05-26T10:34:54Z")

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Thanks @D8vid, I’ll take a look

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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2020, 8:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-thumbnails-for-youtube-playlist-urls/152431/6 "2020-06-01T08:33:34Z")

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For normal YouTube videos, we use a custom embedding system. This doesn’t support the playlist UI. So that explains the difference.

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/076ed66e690bb9a8899103f75ce47560594d0bf0](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/076ed66e690bb9a8899103f75ce47560594d0bf0)

We’re not planning any immediate changes here, but I’ll leave this topic open as a feature request.

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### Author: ![Richie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/richie/32/115110_2.png) [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2024, 10:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-thumbnails-for-youtube-playlist-urls/152431/7 "2024-07-08T10:19:18Z")

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A few years have passed, is there any community interest in one boxing YouTube Playlist urls?