Inspecting Assets to return thumbnail of a saved video on a third party server

Shotstack API
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Hello,

Does anyone know if it’s possible to use the probing assets end point to retrieve a thumbnail of a video that is saved on a third party server?

I have the URL of the video, I want to generate a thumbnail for it without having to do a bunch of other processes to have it saved on SS.

Thank you

Paul

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You can output an image instead of a video if that works, something like this:

{
    "timeline": {
        "tracks": [
            {
                "clips": [
                    {
                        "asset": {
                            "type": "video",
                            "src": "https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/shotstack-assets/footage/cat.hd.mp4",
                            "trim": 3
                        },
                        "start": 0,
                        "length": 1
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    "output": {
        "format": "jpg",
        "resolution": "preview"
    }
}

That will output a jpg file (format: jpg) from a video clip at the 3rd second (trim: 3). The start should be set to 0 and length anything, but set it to 1.

The resolution is set to preview but you could also use size to create a custom size, like this:

{
    "timeline": {
        "tracks": [
            {
                "clips": [
                    {
                        "asset": {
                            "type": "video",
                            "src": "https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/shotstack-assets/footage/cat.hd.mp4",
                            "trim": 3
                        },
                        "start": 0,
                        "length": 1
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    "output": {
        "format": "jpg",
        "size": {
            "width": 400,
            "height": 240
        }
    }
}
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That’s awesome thank you for your help!

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