Overview
In this post we will be looking on how to use the Vimeo API in Python.
About the Vimeo API
Vimeo offers an API which lets us integrate with their site and build applications
on top of their data.
Vimeo provides a "Simple API" and an "Advanced API".
To perform authenticated read/write requests on videos, users, groups, channels,
albums, or upload, you will have to use the Advanced API.
It uses OAuth for authentication, so you will first need to sign up.
When using the Simple API, you don’t need to register or authenticate your app.
One of the drawback with using the Simple API is that it’s limited to public data
and is read-only.
The response limits in the Simple API include up to 20 items per page.
Vimeos API provides different Response formats, and they all return the exact
same data.
Getting Started
After looking at the website of Vimeo, I found out that I can start out with this
URL: http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/video_id.output
the video_id is the ID of the video you want information for.
the output specifies which type that we want (json, xml)
Common Vimeo Requests
Making a User Request
Making a Video Request
Making an Activity Request
Making a Group Request
Making a Channel Request
Making an Album Request
Using the Vimeo API to get data
This script will show how you can set up the script to make a Video request from
Vimeo.
import requests
import json
r = requests.get("http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/48082757.json")
r.text
data = json.loads(r.text)
'do something with the data'
Vimeo has been kind enough to provide some API examples for us which can be found
on their GitHub repository. https://github.com/vimeo/vimeo-api-examples
More Reading
http://developer.vimeo.com/apis/
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