Vimeo states: "Hide this video from Vimeo" will make the video unable to be accessed on the Vimeo website (unless you are logged in as yourself), but it still can be embedded on other websites. Your video can be added to albums and portfolios, but no other types of collections."
In the Vimeo settings, with 'Hide from Vimeo' selected, there is also a checkbox titled 'What can people do with your videos?' I have 'Download them' selected.
So, as far as I am aware, the Vimeo videos should be able to be embedded on my client's website, 'hidden on Vimeo' yet still 'downloadable' from my client's website.
This is not the case. We can not download from the client's website unless the Vimeo settings are set to 'Public,'
Vimeo actually inhibits the download functionality when privacy settings "Who can watch your videos?" are set to anything other than "Anyone." So you have to have public videos on Vimeo which defeats the object of paying for PRO.
The scenario: My client has sensitive videos which they use Vimeo to host (privately). These videos are streamed to private client pages on the Wordpress website using a bespoke plugin. Only the people with access to the private client area on the website should have access to these videos and they must be private everywhere else on the web. BUT, they must be downloadable from the client area.
Please help! We have spent two months developing a bespoke WordPress plugin and now this error is occurring.
We are using Vimeo PRO.
Thank you!
The "download" option in the video's settings refer to the Download button that appears on the video page at vimeo.com/[video_id]. That download setting has no bearing on its ability to be downloaded using the download link; the download link should work anywhere its served, provided that the link has not expired.
See the "Download videos" Help Center article here: https://vimeo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/229678128-Downloading-videos
There are only two supported methods to serve a download link on your website:
Use the Vimeo API to retrieve the download link from Vimeo:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/54009156/3704546
Get the download links from the video's distribution settings page:
https://help.vimeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/224823567-Third-party-player-links
These are the only supported methods to get download links; if you're using another method to get download links, the links may expire or break at any time.
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I am planning to use Vimeo for hosting my educational video series which I want to restrict specific videos to specific user as per what plan / course they have purchased.
After lots of googling, I came across one option in Vimeo to set "domain-level embed privacy" so that only from my site video will be played.
But what if someone inspect webpage and change video url which is private?
Vimeo forum relevent link : https://vimeo.com/forums/api/topic:277888
"If you want to keep your video's privacy set to domain-level embed privacy, one workaround is to embed the video on a domain you control, and then embed that page in your Android webapp."
is there any way to handle this as if someone tried many url changes then he can see video from my website even if I have set them private and domain level security.
In near future, I want to use same in my android app as well so that logged in user can see videos they allowed.
Thanks in advance.
Can someone guide me for this usecase?
But what if someone inspects the webpage and changes the video url which is
private?
If someone inspects the webpage and changes the video url then the change will be local to their system and temporary. As they refresh page it will revert back to original. No website on earth can stop this from happening.
is there any way to handle this as if someone tried many url changes
then he can see video from my website even if I have set them private
and domain level security.
Domain level security as far as I understand means that you can embed video on a website on a particular domain only such as - yourdomain.com. Changing the url of embedded video will not load any video as video is hosted on provided url only.
In near future, I want to use same in my android app as well so that
logged in user can see videos they allowed.
In an android app you can load your page in a webview or inappbrowser. And on a website you can make certain pages accessible to authenticated user only. On top of that you can also implement record level security, so that a particular course is accessible only to people with subscription to that course.
I'd like to know whether there's a way to directly embed a vimeo video into a website or whether there's a way to get a stable link to the MP4 file.
E.g. this page: http://www.landfunker.de/ktv/detail.php?rubric=93&nr=86411. The video is only launched when accessing it from that page. In the source code, I see links like
fpdl.vimeocdn.com/vimeo-prod-skyfire-std-us/01/3026/7/190133161/631209312.mp4?token=587a20e2_0xece9d9d127813f2b792edb30032d4d9b0a7c484f
However, the tokens expire, right. Any tips? Any workarounds.thx
Use the Vimeo iframe embed code to embed videos on your site:
https://help.vimeo.com/hc/en-us/sections/203874347-Embedding-Videos
https://developer.vimeo.com/apis/oembed
To get the MP4 links for video files, you'll need to be a Vimeo PRO or Business member. Video file links are returned in the individual video's response from the API.
GET https://api.vimeo.com/videos/[video_id]
You can use the API's JSON fields filter to only return the video file links:
GET https://api.vimeo.com/videos/[video_id]?fields=files
Finally, note that you can only retrieve the video file links for videos on your own PRO or Business account. Vimeo does not provide a way to retrieve the video file links for videos on other user accounts.
API documentation can be found here: https://developer.vimeo.com/api/start
You can definitely embed a Vimeo video into a website - Vimeo provides instructions on their website:
To get your video's embed code, go to its video page and click the Share button. Then click the +Show options link that appears above the embed code field to reveal a preview of your embedded video with the Basic customization options. Once you've made your adjustments, you can copy the embed code and paste it wherever you'd like to embed your video.
They also provide an API based embed approach using oEmbed. There is a JavaSCript example using this here:
https://github.com/vimeo/vimeo-oembed-examples/blob/master/oembed/js-example.html
This basically calls the API with the URL of the video to embed and the response includes HTML which you append to your page.
I have private videos on Vimeo and need to know if it is possible to use Vimeo's API to display them in my web app.
When my user accesses my web app, I want display my private videos without the user logging on to Vimeo.
Is it possible?
Yes it it possible. As far as I know, you have to white list the domains you want to include your videos. I do not have a paid vimeo account, but I have embedded private videos at a website.
The API documentation for vimeo is at Vimeo API. It is actually not that bad.
To get the meta data for a certain video you can use following link (replace <id> with the video id):
https://vimeo.com/api/oembed.json?url=https%3A//vimeo.com/<id>
This can be usefull if you want to cache certain meta data at your backend side.
I am making a website for school and am going to embed some youtube videos on my site. At my school youtube is blocked and I can get past it by using a vpn, however, the blocks are pretty good and block many proxies. Is there any way that I can in my HTML route the videos through a proxy or something so that my videos will always be accessable as long as the proxy isn't blocked. Thanks.
You can't do it using only HTML. You'll need a web server that downloads the videos and makes them available for the client to download. That's not cheap/convenient.
You can put them on Drive or Dropbox and reproduce them using a web player such as JW Player.
I want to create app that allow users to upload their video to my Vimeo account. I want to hide these video from others. And allow only authenticated users of my app to view these videos.
My question is does Vimeo allow me to do? If yes, how can I do?
Yes! It can be done on a web site. I have recently seen this done on a tutorial site, using a privacy setting available per video. I trust this could also be done using an app, but it's possible the access permissons may be different.
Try checking this page for more details:
http://vimeo.com/help/faq/managing-your-videos/privacy-settings#what-do-the-different-privacy-settings-do
Pay particular attention to the following point, you can make a video exclusive to your site, but for a premium:
You can select from the following privacy options for video embedding:
Only on sites I choose (PLUS and Pro ONLY)
You can achieve it by following these steps:
Limit access to your video only with the private link.
Limit embed domain to your app/website domain
That`s it, now people will be able to view the video only through your embedded player and they will not be able to figure out the private link even with devtools