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Create your own Youtube Thumbnail Downloader in Python

The idea is pretty simple. Given the URL to a Youtube video, the script spews out it’s thumbnail. See this lovely image? It would make for a perfect wallpaper and I wrote a script that does just that. How would Python render it possible, you’d ask? By working hand-in-hand with Youtube API, of course! I should seriously reconsider becoming a clown. I have a hunch that it would come as natural to me....