downlaod youtube tumbnails image in the folder you like

youtube_thumbnail_crawling.py

import re
import requests
import os

#urls to id
url = "YouTube URL"
exp = "^.*((youtu.be\/)|(v\/)|(\/u\/\w\/)|(embed\/)|(watch\?))\??v?=?([^#&?]*).*"
s = re.findall(exp,url)[0][-1]
thumbnail = f"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/{s}/maxresdefault.jpg"

#image scraping
def imagedown(url, folder):
    try:
        os.mkdir(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), folder))
    except:
        pass
    os.chdir(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), folder))

    name = url
    link = url
    with open(name.replace(' ', '-').replace('/', '') + '.jpg', 'wb') as f:
        im = requests.get(link)
        f.write(im.content)
        print('Writing: ', name)

imagedown(thumbnail, 'image')