YouTube – How to View Full Background Image of a Channel

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I just wondered if there is a trick to show the full-sized background image of a YouTube channel.

With thumbnails, there is the trick to view the image and change the URL (from */mqdefault.jpg to */maxresdefault.jpg)

Now, the channel's background image is in reality a really big 16:9 image (I think the biggest versions of this can normally be seen on Smart-TV apps). But on a normal browser only a small subset of this image is even delivered to the client. I hoped that there might be a way to tamper with the image URL (like the thumbnail-trick) to see the full image.

Has anybody an idea?

A small example:

The LaserUnicorn channel has this background image (got the URL from Firfox's "inspect" function): https://yt3.ggpht.com/-C9gaunpPNo8/VYGWj4xT-uI/AAAAAAAAAGo/pUPfpvLF7Dc/w2120-fcrop64=1,00005a57ffffa5a8-nd-c0xffffffff-rj-k-no/comicon_youtube3.jpg

Best Answer

Erik's method is correct, but you can simply delete the -fcroped64=.-nd-.-.-no feature from the URL, then you'll get the picture with its original size.

Example:

  • the URL of the cropped picture: https://yt3.ggpht.com/-C9gaunpPNo8/VYGWj4xT-uI/AAAAAAAAAGo/pUPfpvLF7Dc/w2120-fcrop64=1,00005a57ffffa5a8-nd-c0xffffffff-rj-k-no/comicon_youtube3.jpg

    • the part that should be deleted: -fcrop64=1,00005a57ffffa5a8-nd-c0xffffffff-rj-k-no (even if you delete /comicon_youtube3.jpg from the URL, you'll still be able to see the picture)

    • the URL of the un-cropped picture: https://yt3.ggpht.com/-C9gaunpPNo8/VYGWj4xT-uI/AAAAAAAAAGo/pUPfpvLF7Dc/w2120/comicon_youtube3.jpg

p.s., in the above URL the number "2120" is the width of the picture; because "w" stands for width. And yes we can also add "h"; which stands for height obviously!

For instance, let say that we want the height of the above picture to be 500, then all what we have to do is to add -h500 after w2120 to get /w2120-h500/, then the height of the picture will be displayed with 500 in height.

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