Save any channel's profile picture at full quality (up to 800 x 800) and its banner at the mobile, desktop, and TV crops, straight from YouTube's image servers.
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How it works
The downloader resolves the channel through YouTube's official API and reads its avatar and banner URLs. It then builds the size variants YouTube's image CDN serves. The avatar comes at 88, 240, and 800 pixels square. The banner comes at the 1060-wide safe crop, the 2120-wide desktop strip, and the 2560-wide full canvas. YouTube stores the owner's upload large even though it renders it small. That is why the 800 px avatar usually looks far better than anything on the channel page.
Downloads happen in your browser, fetched directly from YouTube's CDN, which permits it, and saved with clean file names. Nothing passes through our servers. A channel without a banner, or with an old low-resolution avatar, gets exactly what exists, never an upscale.
Video thumbnails live in their own tool, the Thumbnail Downloader. The Channel Analyzer shows the full channel record these images belong to. The Image Resizer reworks a downloaded banner into other sizes.
What you will see
- Avatar sizes
- 88 (as most surfaces render it), 240, and 800 pixels square (the stored full quality).
- Banner crops
- 1060 wide (the mobile-safe region), 2120 (desktop), and 2560 (the full TV canvas as uploaded).
- Download
- Saves the file straight from YouTube's CDN with a clean name.
- Open
- Views the image in a new tab, for right-click workflows.
Frequently asked questions
How do I download a YouTube profile picture in full size?
Enter the channel's handle, URL, or any of its video URLs. The downloader resolves the channel and offers the avatar at 88, 240, and 800 pixels square, fetched from YouTube's own image servers. The 800 px version is the full-quality file the owner uploaded. YouTube renders it small but stores it large. Download saves it straight from your browser.
Can I download a channel banner too?
Yes, in the three crops that matter. The safe mobile crop is 1060 wide, the region every device shows. The desktop strip is 2120 wide. The full TV canvas is 2560 wide, the whole image as uploaded. A channel without a banner simply shows none.
Is it legal to download someone's profile picture?
The files are public, and downloading them is how browsers work. But the image stays the property of the owner or their photographer. Fine uses: personal reference, moodboards, reporting with attribution, and fair-use commentary. Not fine: impersonating the channel or reusing the artwork as your own branding. Apply the same judgement you would to any image on the web.
Why is the avatar blurry at 800 px?
Because the owner uploaded a small file. YouTube upscales nothing. The 800 px URL serves the largest version stored, so what you get is the best that exists. Channels that uploaded the recommended 800 by 800 look sharp. Older channels that uploaded 98 px files look like it.
Does this notify the channel or need my login?
No and no. The lookup reads the channel's public record through YouTube's official API, and the images come from YouTube's public CDN. There is no login, nothing is posted, and YouTube has no notification for image views or downloads.
What format do the images come in?
Whatever YouTube's CDN serves, usually JPEG and sometimes WebP depending on the upload. The files save with a clean name, in the style channel-avatar-800.jpg. To convert or resize afterwards, the YouTube Image Resizer and WebP Converter are one click away.
Can I download my own banner if I lost the original?
Yes. That recovery job is one of the most common uses. Grab the 2560-wide TV crop, which is the fullest surviving version of your upload. It may differ slightly from your original file, because YouTube re-encodes images, but it is what YouTube has.
Is the profile picture downloader free?
Yes, free with no signup. Each channel resolution draws one lookup from the shared daily allowance shown by the quota chip. The downloads themselves come direct from YouTube's CDN and are unlimited. Video thumbnails have their own tool: the YouTube Thumbnail Downloader.