How to get thumbnail of Uploaded video in SharePoint online document library

Question

I need one assistance where I upload video file in SPO custom document library. And later on I need to show only the thumbnail image of that video uploaded in custom UI page, and once user clicks on the thumbnail image it should play the video in other page using SPFX webpart.

I am able to get thumbnail image URL using MS Flow and set it as metadata data property for that document library item, it works fine but challenge is that the URL gets expired after some time as the thumbnail image URL contains access token as parameter.

Is there a way I can get the thumbnail image URL without access token and should not expire, which I can use while binding my custom SPFX webpart page?

Answer 1

Hi @Suman Suman

Currently there is no such method can get the thumbnail without accesstoken. You will need at least Files.Read permission to get the thumbnail.

You could use following api to retrieve the data

GET /sites/{site-id}/drive/items/{item-id}/thumbnails

Here is the document for more details

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/driveitem-list-thumbnails?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=powershell

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