Plyr: https://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/{id}.json not found

[stanvanheumen]

Expected behaviour

No error logged in the console.

Actual behaviour

An error is displayed in the console with a response of "{id} not found."

Steps to reproduce

Follow the Vimeo steps and embed a video.

Environment

• Browser: Chrome
• Version: 68
• Operating System: MacOS
• Version: 10.13.6

[sampotts]

Do you see this on https://plyr.io/#vimeo ? I can't seem to replicate.

[Joeao]

Sounds like you're passing in {id} rather than an actual Vimeo ID.

[stanvanheumen]

I can't replicate it on the plyr page either, however when I included the library in our own project the library always emits an error:

https://media-evolution.firebaseapp.com/watch?v=34

I am using the following syntax:
<div id="player" data-plyr-provider="vimeo" data-plyr-embed-id="76979871"></div>

[Joeao]

@stanvanheumen On the page you linked I'm not getting the error

[houke]

Got the same issue (also getting it on https://media-evolution.firebaseapp.com/watch?v=34), with the same environment specs.

[gurupras]

Does the video load and play? I've had issues where the vimeo video has refused to load accompanied by the same error you're having.

[stanvanheumen]

@Joeao I'm still receiving the error.
@gurupras Yes, the video does load and play.

The library seems to request this url: https://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/286759118.json. In can see in the Chrome network tab that the browser is receiving a 404 Not Found error.

The response from the Vimeo API:
286759118 not found.

[danaburger]

@stanvanheumen Your request is utilizing Vimeo's deprecated Simple API- https://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/286759118.json

The Simple API can only retrieve metadata for videos public on vimeo.com. Your video at https://vimeo.com/286759118 is not public and cannot be retrieved using the Simple API.

To get metadata on private videos, use the latest version of Vimeo's API: https://developer.vimeo.com/api/start

[stanvanheumen]

@danaburger Thanks for your response.

Isn't the library the one making this HTTP call?

[Brianvdb]

Any update on this? This is a library issue.

[sampotts]

I'm not really too sure what to do about this. I can't prevent that error in the console and let's be honest, it does no harm other than effect logs if you log to Sentry or similar. It's a 404 at Vimeo's end. We can't use the new API as you'd need to specify an API access token which is a bit of effort for some. I could probably add an option to load the poster image or not (that's what the call is for) if the console message is causing a problem.

[19peaches]

Can we get this resolved please? This issue has been open for months.

[sampotts]

I’m dreadfully sorry I’m not meeting your SLAs with this free software!

Feel free to open a PR.

[jolic]

Still open?

[sampotts]

Still open?

Still not read the thread? https://github.com/sampotts/plyr/issues/1181#issuecomment-427282584

[jolic]

Sorry

[jolic]

I'll make a PR later this week

[msahajwani]

No, I moved to a different player.

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 2:24 AM Jason Walter [e-mail]
wrote:

@jolic https://github.com/jolic Did you find a fix for this? I spent
hours to narrow the issue I'm having down to this - my private Vimeo video
container displays on my Production site, but asks for a password. It works
on my staging domain though. It's very odd to me.

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[johanjanssens]

Have the same issue but it doesn't interfere with plyr working in my case. After a bit of testing it seems that the error happens when you set the video to Who can watch: People with the private linkIf you set it to Anyone the error doesn't happen. Hope this is helpful.

@sampotts Thanks for making plyr!

[johanjanssens]

Further info. The problem can be solved by using the oembed endpoint provided by Vimeo instead of the /api endpoint. See: https://developer.vimeo.com/api/oembed/videos

The url would be https://vimeo.com/api/oembed.json?url=https%3A//vimeo.com/[id]

Here [id]is the vimeo video id, for videos that are set to private linking the id has an extra key in the form of: [id]/[key]. If you provide the full id and key you can get the oembed metadata which includes two urls that can be used for the poster image:

• thumbnail_url
• thumbnail_url_with_play_button

The second one has a play button overlay

[omenking]

Awaiting to see #1181 merged so I can finally reduce the noise in my error tracking software

[sampotts]

This is released in v3.6.3. Again, sorry for the delay. I've been moving house, busy with work, blah blah. Thanks for the PR.