Vimeo API 2016 how to display list of users videos - php

Question

I'm having trouble finding a simplified tutorial for using the Vimeo API I know I need to include vimeo.php and the following
include 'vimeo.php';
$vimeo = new phpVimeo('Client Identifier', 'Client Secrets');
$videos = $vimeo->call('vimeo.videos.getUploaded', array('user_id' => "user1877648"));
print_r($videos);
I've copied and pasted the fields I've used from the access Authentication in case that's where the issue is, I've also read that for simple calls to the API don't need access tokens?
I could really do with some pointers as to how I get a list of vimeo thumbs linking to the vimeo url from a specific user? I was using the older code and up until recently it worked well.

Answer 1

Dashron pointed you to all of the correct places to find the documentation needed to do what you are trying to do.
However, here is an example of how you would do it.
You need to download / clone the Vimeo PHP Library (found here: https://github.com/vimeo/vimeo.php).
Then go to Vimeo and create an app so you can acquire a client id and client secret (https://developer.vimeo.com/api/start).
Now that you have a client id, client secret, and the vimeo library, you can create a simple script to load all of the videos from a specific user. Here is an example:
<?php
// include the autoload file from the vimeo php library that was downloaded
include __DIR__ . '/vimeo/autoload.php';
// The client id and client secret needed to use the vimeo API
$clientId = "";
$clientSecret = "";
// when getting an auth token we need to provide the scope
// all possible scopes can be found here https://developer.vimeo.com/api/authentication#supported-scopes
$scope = "public";
// The id of the user
$userId = "alexbohs";
// initialize the vimeo library
$lib = new \Vimeo\Vimeo($clientId, $clientSecret);
// request an auth token (needed for all requests to the Vimeo API)
$token = $lib->clientCredentials($scope);
// set the token
$lib->setToken($token['body']['access_token']);
// request all of a user's videos, 50 per page
// a complete list of all endpoints can be found here https://developer.vimeo.com/api/endpoints
$videos = $lib->request("/users/$userId/videos", ['per_page' => 50]);
// loop through each video from the user
foreach($videos['body']['data'] as $video) {
// get the link to the video
$link = $video['link'];
// get the largest picture "thumb"
$pictures = $video['pictures']['sizes'];
$largestPicture = $pictures[count($pictures) - 1]['link'];
}
Keep in mind that the vimeo API returns "pages" of videos. So if the user has more than 50 videos per page you would need to do a request for each page by specifying the page number using "page" parameter (Change ['per_page' => 50] to ['per_page' => 50, 'page' => #].

Answer 2

This is the old, Advanced API. It is deprecated.
The new PHP library is here: https://github.com/vimeo/vimeo.php
The new API docs are here: https://developer.vimeo.com/api
The endpoint to retrieve all of your videos is https://api.vimeo.com/me/videos (https://developer.vimeo.com/api/endpoints/me#/videos)