# Image of link question

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/image-of-link-question/7616>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [April 22, 2020, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/image-of-link-question/7616 "2020-04-22T15:20:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/image-of-link-question/7616/8 "2020-04-22T21:09:09Z")

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Well, you mentioned an image in your original post. Not a youtube video, so I was under impression that you were attempting to display an image that was hosted on a different website. It works in the forum because the forum knows how to build the video embed code from a video link. If you want to obtain a thumbnail image from a youtube video url, then check out this post:

> [@Video Component](https://community.glideapps.com/t/video-component/1628/4):
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> Here is a workaround to display video thumbnail in list/tile component: setup your sheet to take the info you want to display in the tile e.g. a column for video name and youtube url. then add column to extract the youtube video code from the url and apply the formula to the entire column. The formula looks like this: =ArrayFormula(iferror(REGEXEXTRACT(B2:B, “youtu(?:.\*/v/|.v=|.be/|.?embed/)([A-Za-z0-9\_-]{11})”), “”)) then add column to extract a thumbnail from the youtube video code and again…

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