How to get a Video Thumbnail using PowerShell on SharePoint SE version?

Question

I have a SharePoint (Subscription Edition) document library that is hosting some videos I uploaded. How can I get the video thumbnails using PowerShell? Again, the SharePoint version I am targeting is the Subscription Edition so using Graph is not supported. Any idea how to do this with CSOM/PowerShell/Rest?

JP

Answer 1

HI @Jean Paul Larach,

One possible way to get the video thumbnails from a SharePoint document library using PowerShell is to use the SharePoint CSOM API.

The CSOM API provides a method called GetFileByServerRelativeUrl that can be used to get a reference to a file in a document library.

Then, you can use the ListVideoThumbnails method to get a collection of thumbnails for the video file. You can also specify the width and height of the thumbnails you want to retrieve.

This is just a code template for your reference. For specific situations, you need to modify the code according to your scenario.

Add-Type -Path “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll” 
Add-Type -Path “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll”

$SiteUrl = “https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/videosite” $VideoFileUrl = “/sites/videosite/Shared Documents/MyVideo.mp4”

$UserName = “user@contoso.com” $Password = “password”

$SecurePassword = $Password | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force $Credentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($UserName, $SecurePassword) $Context = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($SiteUrl) $Context.Credentials = $Credentials

$VideoFile = $Context.Web.GetFileByServerRelativeUrl($VideoFileUrl) $Context.Load($VideoFile) $Context.ExecuteQuery()

$Thumbnails = $VideoFile.ListVideoThumbnails(200, 200) # Specify the width and height of the thumbnails $Context.Load($Thumbnails) $Context.ExecuteQuery()

foreach ($Thumbnail in $Thumbnails) {
 Write-Host $Thumbnail.ServerRelativeUrl 
}
$Context.Dispose()

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