VIMEO (Pro) get JSON response help (PHP/CURL) - php

Question

I have a Vimeo PRO account.
I have protected videos uploaded.
Videos are also set to ONLY be embeddable on my domains (set in the video settings)
I am -not- grasping how to use their examples (sorry, for me the examples do not include real working samples for me,..or at least how to implement them to understand.. so I'm hoping to get some help)
Not clear on all the OAuth2, Oembed... authentication stuff either.. which I believe is where my problem lies.
I was following this gitHub example:
https://github.com/vimeo/vimeo-api-examples/blob/master/oembed/php-example.php
(looks to be pretty old?)
I'm looking to get JSON data returned for a video when an ID is passed along.
I was/am under the impression that I need to 'authenticate' before I can get my response/return data?
Is this best done in the CURL header or something?
Can someone guide me a bit more? (shouldnt be this hard!) haha..
Here is my code:
$video_endpoint = 'https://api.vimeo.com/videos/';
$video_url = '171811266';
//JSON url
//$json_url = $video_endpoint . '.json?url=' . rawurlencode($video_url);
//this fixes the cURL approach
$json_url = $video_endpoint . rawurlencode($video_url);
// Curl helper function
function curl_get($url) {
$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
//curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Authorization : bearer xxxxxx'));
$return = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
return $return;
}
$vimeoJSON = json_decode((curl_get($json_url)));
var_dump($vimeoJSON);
And I get this response:
object(stdClass)#1 (1) { ["error"]=> string(52) "You must provide a valid authenticated access token." }
questions are:
1.) Is this even a valid approach? (assuming I just need to append some lines of code to the CURL header to send my auth over before getting a response?)
2.) How do I update my CURL snippet to work with VIEMO authentication?
I'm trying to keep this as CLEAN/SIMPLE as I can (for the JSON call/return portion)..
Any guidance is appreciated.
Thanks
update:
this code does NOT work:
$access_token = 'xxx';
$video_endpoint = 'https://api.vimeo.com/videos/';
$video_url = '171811266';
$json_url = $video_endpoint . '.json?url=' . rawurlencode($video_url);
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_URL => $json_url,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
"authorization: Bearer ".$access_token
),
));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}
The video I want to use is located here:
https://vimeo.com/171811266/5822169b48
IT IS A PRIVATE VIDEO. (not sure you'll be able to see it)..
When I use the latest version of the code posted above.. I get this response:
{"error":"The requested video could not be found"}
Is this because its a PRIVATE video?
(actually I just set the video to be able to be viewed by anyone.. and I still got the same error/response) (not found)
If so.. what is the fix to use MY videos.. that are set to private... but use them on my site/domain still?
===========================================================================
FINAL UPDATE:
Trying to use the code in the readme example:
https://github.com/vimeo/vimeo.php
Trying to use (un-successfully) the LIB #Dashron pointed me too.. I cant even seem to get the basics to work from the GIT Page:
Code:
//project vars
$client_id = 'xxxx';
$client_secret = 'xxx';
$access_token = 'xxx';
$redirect_uri = 'http://domain.com/file.php'; //where do I redirect them back to? the page where I have the embeded video at?
// scope is an array of permissions your token needs to access. You can read more at https://developer.vimeo.com/api/authentication#scopes
$scopes = Array('public', 'private');
$state = 'Ldhg0478y';
require("Vimeo/autoload.php");
$lib = new Vimeo\Vimeo($client_id, $client_secret);
// build a link to Vimeo so your users can authorize your app. //whatever that means and is for?
$url = $lib->buildAuthorizationEndpoint($redirect_uri, $scopes, $state);
// redirect_uri must be provided, and must match your configured uri
$token = $lib->accessToken(code, redirect_uri);
// usable access token
var_dump($token['body']['access_token']);
// accepted scopes
var_dump($token['body']['scope']);
// use the token
$lib->setToken($token['body']['access_token']);
I get this error message:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected Fatal error: Class 'Vimeo\Vimeo' not found in /usr/www/users/aaemorg/aaem.org/video/vimeo_lib.php
Seems like its not creating instantiating my $lib object/class??
(I know I'm not great at high level PHP class/code... but this absurdly hard just to get a JSON response for video I own to embed (again) on a site I own as well)
Any direction would be appreciated?
======================================================================
Update: "what worked for me"..
I am appreciate the link to the 'official' library.. but the readme examples just didnt work for me...
To keep things nice and easy for others who may be new to the Vimeo API stuff as well.. here is a quick and dirty, simple code sample to get you up and running:
<?
//include offifial library
require("Vimeo/autoload.php");
$client_id = 'xxx';
$client_secret = 'xxx';
$access_token = 'xxx';
$video_id = 'xxx';
$lib = new Vimeo\Vimeo($client_id, $client_secret, $access_token);
$video_response = $lib->request('/videos/'.$video_id);
//dont really need this, but included in case there is some data you need to display
$token_response = $lib->clientCredentials();
//example of parsing out specific data from the array returned
//name/title
echo $video_response['body']['name'] . '<br><br>';
?>

Answer 1

The link you provided is very, very old. It is actually part of a different API, and no longer relevant.
The Library you should be using is located here: https://github.com/vimeo/vimeo.php with many examples in the readme, and the examples directory!

Answer 2

Below code works for me
Please follow this step before
Under video settings : General->privacy, Change Who can watch select box to Anyone.
$url = 'https://api.vimeo.com/videos/388591356';
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
$headers = array();
$headers[] = "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
$headers[] = "Accept: application/json";
$headers[] = "Authorization: Bearer 969329f9b5b3882d74d1b39297528242";
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$final_result = json_decode( preg_replace('/[\x00-\x1F\x80-\xFF]/', '', $result), true );
echo "<pre>";
print_r($final_result);