Youtube Live Stream thumbnails don't get downloaded

Created on 6 August 2025, 9 days ago

Problem/Motivation

The Remote Video media type supports both regular youtube video URLs (e.g., https://youtu.be/OUz8qxs6l4M) and live stream video URLs (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/live/k15PG3Rk-5o).

For Live stream URLs, the thumbnail file does not get created and the thumbnail__target_id in the media table gets set to the fallback video.png file.

Steps to reproduce

Enable Media module
Configure a Remove Video media type with a Remote Video source
Create a Remote Video entity
Add a Live stream URL like https://www.youtube.com/live/k15PG3Rk-5o
Save and publish entity
Notice thumbnail in media listing is missing
Check the media entity in the media_field_data table
Notice it is set to the file id for the fallback video.png image
Check the file_managed table
Sort by entity id descending
You should see a recently created thumbnail
Notice you don't

✨ Feature request

Status

Active

Version

11.1 🔥

Component

media system

Created by

🇺🇸United States banoodle San Francisco, CA

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Comments & Activities

Issue created by @banoodle
Comment 8 days ago →
🇳🇿New Zealand quietone
In Drupal core changes are made on on 11.x (our main development branch) first, and are then back ported as needed according to the Core change policies → . Also mentioned on the version → section of the list of issue fields documentation. Thanks.
Comment 1 day ago →
🇺🇸United States banoodle San Francisco, CA
Well, this is embarrassing: I just realized this is working correctly. It turns out the live youtube videos I was testing with just genuinely lacked thumbnails in youtube. For the Live videos where the client uploaded/set a thumbnail on YouTube, Drupal creates the file entity and sets the thumbnail target correctly.

Sorry about that!

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