/vimeo/videos/search

POST /api/vimeo/videos/search

Price: 10 credits

Search videos by keyword and filters

How to use it

Search Vimeo videos by keyword, optionally ordered by relevance, upload date, popularity, title, or duration, and filtered by category, duration, Creative Commons license, resolution, HDR, spatial/360, price, live status, upload recency, and Staff Picks. Returns each video with title, uploader, duration, view/like/comment counts, and thumbnail.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• query string required — Search query (examples: "nature"; minLength: 1)
• count integer required — Max number of results (min: 1)
• sort string — Result ordering (default: "relevance"; one of: "relevance", "newest", "popular", "title_asc", "title_desc", "longest", "shortest")
• category string nullable — Filter by category (one of: "travel", "documentary", "experimental", "animation", "narrative", "music", "educational", "sports", "industry", "art", "brandedcontent", "instructionals", "adsandcommercials", "cameratechniques", "events", "product", "trailers", "comedy", "personal", "journalism", "fashion", "wedding", "talks", "food", "identsandanimatedlogos", "titlesandcredits")
• duration string nullable — Filter by video length (one of: "short", "medium", "long")
• license string nullable — Filter by Creative Commons license (one of: "by-nc-nd", "by", "by-nc", "by-nc-sa", "by-nd", "by-sa", "cc0")
• resolution string nullable — Filter by resolution (one of: "4k")
• hdr string nullable — Filter by HDR format (one of: "hdr", "dolby_vision", "hdr10", "hdr10+")
• spatial string nullable — Filter by spatial / 360 format (one of: "spatial", "360")
• price string nullable — Filter by price (one of: "free", "paid")
• live_event string nullable — Filter by live status (one of: "now")
• uploaded string nullable — Filter by upload recency (one of: "this-year", "this-month", "this-week", "today")
• staff_picks boolean — Only Vimeo Staff Picks (default: false)

Response

• @type string (default: "VimeoVideo")
• id string required
• video_title string nullable
• description string nullable
• url string nullable
• image string nullable
• duration integer nullable
• width integer nullable
• height integer nullable
• fps number nullable
• user object nullable
  • @type string (default: "VimeoUser")
  • id string required
  • name string nullable
  • alias string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • bio string nullable
  • image string nullable
  • location string nullable
  • is_verified boolean (default: false)
  • membership_type string nullable
  • video_count integer nullable
  • follower_count integer nullable
  • following_count integer nullable
  • showcase_count integer nullable
  • like_count integer nullable
  • social_links array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "VimeoSocialLink")
    • name string nullable
    • url string nullable
    • platform string nullable
  • created_at integer nullable
• view_count integer nullable
• like_count integer nullable
• comment_count integer nullable
• tags array (default: [])
• categories array (default: [])
• license string nullable
• privacy string nullable
• content_rating array (default: [])
• language string nullable
• is_spatial boolean (default: false)
• is_live boolean (default: false)
• is_hdr boolean (default: false)
• unlisted_hash string nullable
• files array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "VimeoVideoFile")
  • quality string nullable
  • width integer nullable
  • height integer nullable
  • fps number nullable
  • mime string nullable
  • url string nullable
• subtitles array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "VimeoSubtitle")
  • id string nullable
  • language string nullable
  • label string nullable
  • kind string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • is_active boolean (default: false)
• created_at integer nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.