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Any way to embed private videos?

Ze'ev Gilad Plus 2 years ago

I need to embed videos which should ONLY be viewable from my website to clients.

Using the advanced API, I was able to create a PHP gallery of videos from a private album.

But when I attempt to embed those videos, they come up with the lock/private icon.

What can I do? Can I call an authorized embed somehow?

Ryan Hefner Staff 2 years ago

Hey Ze'ev,

You can either password protect those videos or have those videos only embeddable on the domain that you are embedding on, but you would have to handle the authentication to confirm that only clients view that domain.

Let us know if you have any other questions.

Thanks,
Ryan

Wheelhouse Creative PRO 2 years ago

I've found a kind of workaround; it's finicky, but it works.

FIRST you set a video's privacy to "None." (This removes it from any albums/etc.)

THEN you add the video to a private album.

Now it is embeddable with no 'lock' icon, AND it is organized within an album.

Zlatko Kopljar Plus 2 years ago

can you please explain in more detail how to set up the vidoes so they are only embeddable on one domain?

i'd like to use Vimeo in this way as a kind of server to a client's website. Also would the client need a Plus account for this?

thx

Ryan Hefner Staff 2 years ago

Hello Zlatko,

Yes, that is a Plus only feature, so your client would need to signup for a Plus account. Once signed up, when you access a video's settings, you can specify which domains that video is allowed to be embedded on.

Please let us know if you run into any issues once you have upgraded their account.

Thanks,
Ryan

Andrew Walker 1 year ago

Hi Ryan,

Was just wondering if this feature is available for PRO accounts too?

Brad Dougherty Staff 1 year ago

Yes, it's available for PRO as well.

Zlatko Kopljar Plus 2 years ago

cool thanks a lot! vimeo rocks!
just a note for any drupalites, that I had to first import the video into drupal (via emfield) before making the video private in order for the thumbnail to get pulled in.

Visual Effects Society Plus 2 years ago

I'm having trouble seeing thumbnails for private videos. I tried making it public and refreshing, to try to pick up the thumbs, but it didn't work. I walked through the emfield code with a debugger, and posted my findings here:
drupal.org/node/981240#comment-4072546

The Drupal interface config screen lets you enter an API key, but I don't see it references in emfield or media_vimeo, and the form says "You no longer need a key for any current supported features". So I don't think there is a way to grab a thumbnail for a private video - or is there? I tried making the video public and refreshing, but still no thumb.

Brad Dougherty Staff 2 years ago

It's possible to get thumbnails for private videos through the Advanced API. Sometimes it can take a few minutes after changing privacy settings for them to update through the API.

We can't offer support on third-party code (the Drupal module you linked to).

The Art Newspaper PRO 1 year ago

Just to confirm (as this thread is getting on a bit): is it possible to embed a private video through the API? I have a PRO account and I'm trying to use Vimeo as a media server for my site. I don't want to enable community pass. But I can't see a way to embed with authentication. If it is, can you please provide detail on how to do this?

Brad Dougherty Staff 1 year ago

You can retrieve information on private videos with the Advanced API, but you cannot embed a video unless it is set to be embeddable in the settings.

Thomas Smith 1 year ago

Hi
Linked closely to this - is there a value in the JSON response that indicates whether a video can be embedded? Youtube do return a value in their response but I can't find one in your response - but it might be just me being stupid!

Thanks

Andrey Petrenko 1 year ago

+1 I'm also looking for such solution.. May I kindly ask the staff to share the secret with us...

Trent Steel 3 months ago

If a video is set so it can only be embedded on a specific domain, can you prevent it from showing up in your feed and viewable on viemo.com?

So basically you would only be able to view it through a page on my clients site where it is embedded?

Erick 3 months ago

Hello,

We're about to buy a Pro account but wanted to see if is possible and where's more info on how
to show videos on a protected web site to that site's users ?

Thanks a lot

Trax Nigeria 3 months ago

on vimeo you also see on the sidebar a "you may also like these video" block. How do you implement that on the page where you have embedded a vimeo video?