# Question about YouTube cover art

**URL:** <https://community.metabrainz.org/t/question-about-youtube-cover-art/685114>\
**Category:** MusicBrainz\
**Tags:** cover-art, digital-media, youtube\
**Created:** [March 8, 2024, 7:58am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/question-about-youtube-cover-art/685114 "2024-03-08T07:58:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 9:16am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/question-about-youtube-cover-art/685114/2 "2024-03-08T09:16:57Z")

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I don’t know because I don’t edit YouTube releases, but about getting a good image, if you have [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) command line tool – [available on Linux, Macintosh, Windows](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases) – you can use:

> `yt-dlp --skip-download --write-thumbnail --convert-thumbnails png <YouTube video ID or URL>`

Use `png` because [CAA does not support WebP images yet](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/CAA-91).

Otherwise a web search like `youtube thumbnail downloader` should help. 😉

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