Added option --write-all-thumbnails

README.md

@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
     --write-annotations              write video annotations to a .annotation
                                      file
     --write-thumbnail                write thumbnail image to disk
+    --write-all-thumbnails           write all thumbnail images to disk
 
 ## Verbosity / Simulation Options:
     -q, --quiet                      activates quiet mode

youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py

@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
     writeinfojson:     Write the video description to a .info.json file
     writeannotations:  Write the video annotations to a .annotations.xml file
     writethumbnail:    Write the thumbnail image to a file
+    writeallthumbnails:Write all thumbnail images to disk
     writesubtitles:    Write the video subtitles to a file
     writeautomaticsub: Write the automatic subtitles to a file
     allsubtitles:      Downloads all the subtitles of the video
@@ -897,10 +898,31 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
                     self.report_error('Cannot write metadata to JSON file ' + infofn)
                     return
 
-        if self.params.get('writethumbnail', False):
+        if self.params.get('writethumbnail', False) or self.params.get('writeallthumbnails', False):
-            if info_dict.get('thumbnail') is not None:
+            # create a list of all thumbnails the user has requested (all or only one)
-                thumb_format = determine_ext(info_dict['thumbnail'], 'jpg')
+            allthumbs = []
+            if self.params.get('writeallthumbnails', False) and info_dict.get('thumbnails') is not None:
+                for ele in info_dict.get('thumbnails'):
+                    try:
+                        if ele.get('url'):
+                            allthumbs.append(ele.get('url'))
+                    except AttributeError:
+                        # not all extractor return dicts
+                        allthumbs.append(ele)
+                if info_dict.get('thumbnail') and not info_dict.get('thumbnail') in allthumbs:
+                    allthumbs.insert(0,info_dict.get('thumbnail'))
+
+            allthumblen = len(allthumbs)
+            thumbcnt = 0
+            for thumburl in allthumbs:
+                thumbcnt += 1
+                thumb_format = determine_ext(thumburl, 'jpg')
+                if allthumblen == 1:
                     thumb_filename = os.path.splitext(filename)[0] + '.' + thumb_format
+                else:
+                    # append '_1', '_2' etc. to filename, if necessary with leading zero(s)
+                    thumb_filename = os.path.splitext(filename)[0] + \
+                           ('_%%0%sd.%%s' % len(str(allthumblen)) % (thumbcnt, thumb_format))
                 if self.params.get('nooverwrites', False) and os.path.exists(encodeFilename(thumb_filename)):
                     self.to_screen('[%s] %s: Thumbnail is already present' %
                                    (info_dict['extractor'], info_dict['id']))
@@ -908,14 +930,14 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
                     self.to_screen('[%s] %s: Downloading thumbnail ...' %
                                    (info_dict['extractor'], info_dict['id']))
                     try:
-                        uf = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(info_dict['thumbnail'])
+                        uf = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(thumburl)
                         with open(thumb_filename, 'wb') as thumbf:
                             shutil.copyfileobj(uf, thumbf)
                         self.to_screen('[%s] %s: Writing thumbnail to: %s' %
                             (info_dict['extractor'], info_dict['id'], thumb_filename))
                     except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
                         self.report_warning('Unable to download thumbnail "%s": %s' %
-                            (info_dict['thumbnail'], compat_str(err)))
+                            (thumburl, compat_str(err)))
 
         if not self.params.get('skip_download', False):
             if self.params.get('nooverwrites', False) and os.path.exists(encodeFilename(filename)):

youtube_dl/__init__.py

@@ -416,7 +416,9 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
     filesystem.add_option('--write-thumbnail',
             action='store_true', dest='writethumbnail',
             help='write thumbnail image to disk', default=False)
-
+    filesystem.add_option('--write-all-thumbnails',
+            action='store_true', dest='writeallthumbnails',
+            help='write all thumbnail images to disk', default=False)
 
     postproc.add_option('-x', '--extract-audio', action='store_true', dest='extractaudio', default=False,
             help='convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg or avconv and ffprobe or avprobe)')
@@ -702,6 +704,7 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
         'writeannotations': opts.writeannotations,
         'writeinfojson': opts.writeinfojson,
         'writethumbnail': opts.writethumbnail,
+        'writeallthumbnails': opts.writeallthumbnails,
         'writesubtitles': opts.writesubtitles,
         'writeautomaticsub': opts.writeautomaticsub,
         'allsubtitles': opts.allsubtitles,