Radio Song Album Artwork Cover by YouTube

An album cover is the front / other side of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product, or album.

You can find online APIs or Websites where artwork available

– Amazon
– LastFM
– Soundcloud
– Apple iTune
– Google Play
– Gracenote
– Free Music Archive

And many more ….

But YouTube is the best source where you can get Album / Song Cover Image for every Title

YouTube provide gdata API to search songs as video title to get image

Deprecated Features for YouTube API v2.0

YouTube Data API (v3)

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/videos?q=title:<search term>

youtube-artwork.php

<?php
$q = isset($_REQUEST['q'])?$_REQUEST['q']:"";

//thumbnail -> sqDefault, hqDefault

// orderby -> title, relevance, published

?>
 
 
<div id="videos"></div>
 
<!-- Include the latest jQuery library -->
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js"></script>
 
<script type="text/javascript">

jQuery.getJSON('https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=<?php echo $q; ?>&max-results=1&v=2&alt=jsonc&orderby=relevance', function(data) {
    var output="<ul>";
    for (var i in data.data.items) {
        
		output+="<li><img src='" + data.data.items[i].thumbnail.hqDefault + "' /></li>";
		output+="<li>" + data.data.items[i].title + "</li>";
		
    }
	var output="</ul>";
	
    document.getElementById("videos").innerHTML=output;
	
	});

</script>

How you can get cover image?

http://www.domain.com/youtube-artwork.php?q=Ek%20Villain%20-%20Galliyan

song album artwork