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I am trying to have all my posts with post_format set as video, have said video as the featured image. Here is what I am working with thus far but I need some help:

    if($post_format == 'video') {

    if(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'video_site_url', true)) the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, 'video_site_url');        
        echo '<div class="video-containers single_item">'.wp_oembed_get(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'video_site_url', true)).'</div>';
}

Right now I'm using a YouTube's iframe to embed the video into my post and that seems to be working quite well.

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  • Image is not a video. So technically "featured image" should be an "image". Try this plugin if you want to get YouTube image and set it as featured image.
    – Rain Man
    Aug 24, 2016 at 19:12

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Well this is not exactly a WordPress problem / solution.

First you have to either get the video id from the video_site_url post meta or save the YouTube video id in it's own post meta field, maybe youtube_video_id.

Next you can get the thumbnail using one of these url

http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/0.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/1.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/2.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/3.jpg

Read this SO answer

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