Thumbnail_url is not a consistent format

[DevUser]

I’m not sure if this was intended design but the format for the thumbnail_url is different in streams and videos.

GET STREAMS

"thumbnail_url": "https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/previews-ttv/live_user_lirik-{width}x{height}.jpg"

GET VIDEOS

"thumbnail_url": "https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/s3_vods/bebc8cba2926d1967418_chewiemelodies_27786761696_805342775/thumb/thumb0-%{width}x%{height}.jpg"

What’s more inconsistent is other image urls don’t have the width and height formatting of some of the other APIs.

"profile_image_url": "https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/jtv_user_pictures/dallas-profile_image-1a2c906ee2c35f12-300x300.png"

[BarryCarlyon]

Correct it’s not supposed to be consistent.

[DevUser]

I think it should be from a developer standpoint

[BarryCarlyon]

You are comparing three different things.

So they have three different URLS

Additionally VOD Thumbnails can and will change. Recent VOD’s tend to have one URL and older VOD’s have a different URL.

If you think this should be changed of you have a feature request.

https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/310213/

Personally I don’t have a problem I fetch and display whatever it is from the JSON responses from the API without issue. So if it changes then nothing breaks. And I don’t have to consider about constructing it from a fixed format if I can just fetch it