assigning Youtube api Thumbnail to datatype c#

Question

trying to assign youtube thumbnail I receive from youtube api to a datatype or something of some sort so it can be passed through my system and appear in a image box on my website

have tried using system.drawing.bitmap and system.drawing.image and get error:

'cannot implicitly convert type'

 foreach (var playlistItem in playlistItemsListResponse.Items)
                {
                // Print information about each video.

                //Console.WriteLine("{0} ({1})",playlistItem.Snippet.Thumbnails, playlistItem.Snippet.Title, playlistItem.Snippet.ResourceId.VideoId);
                playlistItem.Snippet.ResourceId.VideoId = vidDetails.vidId;
                playlistItem.Snippet.Title= vidDetails.vidTitle;
                playlistItem.Snippet.Thumbnails = vidDetails.vidThumb;



                }

video details:

   public string vidId { get; set; }
   public string vidTitle { get; set; }
   public string vidDesc { get; set; }
   public string vidTags { get; set; }
   public System.Drawing.Bitmap vidThumb { get; set; }

display: protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {

    Video_details vidDetails = new Video_details();

uploaded_videos uploadedVids = new uploaded_videos();
    new uploaded_videos().Run(vidDetails).Wait();


    vidDetails.vidThumb = imgVid1....



}
}

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

Try using PictureBox.Load("https://i.ytimg.com/vi/abcdefghijk/default.jpg") from the PictureBox.Load method in C#.

You can also use the method provided in this SO thread:

var request = WebRequest.Create("http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6810d91caff032b202c50701dd3af745?d=identicon&r=PG");

using (var response = request.GetResponse())
using (var stream = response.GetResponseStream())
{
    pictureBox1.Image = Bitmap.FromStream(stream);
}

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 05 '17 at 15:30

snippet.thumbnails property is an object that identifies the thumbnail images available for that resource.A thumbnail resource contains a series of objects. The name of each object (default, medium, high, etc.) refers to the thumbnail image size.

        item.Snippet.Thumbnails.Default__.Url

will give you the address of default thumbnail image by accessing which you can use Image and assign it to the local variables and vice versa.

assigning Youtube api Thumbnail to datatype c#

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