Vimeo Scraper (Category, Showcase and Groups)

What does Vimeo Scraper do?

Vimeo Scraper is an Apify actor that scrapes videos from Vimeo categories, groups, and showcases with pagination support. It extracts video metadata including video URLs, titles, author information, duration, play count, like coun, comment count, and more.

Features

• 🎥 Scrape videos from Vimeo categories, groups, and showcases
• ⚡ Fast and reliable scraping with pagination support
• 🧑‍💻 Perfect for non-technical users
• 🔒 No need for authentication
• 🔄 Automatically handles retries for failed requests
• 🔍 Search within categories or groups
• 📦 Outputs data in JSON format for easy integration with other tools

🎯 Who Is This For?

• Content creators looking to analyze Vimeo videos in specific categories
• Marketers researching video trends on Vimeo
• Developers needing Vimeo video data for their applications
• Data analysts conducting social media research
• Video curators exploring group collections

⬇️ What You Need to Provide

• 🔗 A list of Vimeo Category, Group, or Showcase URLs to scrape data from. Example URLs:
  • https://vimeo.com/categories/documentary/videos
  • https://vimeo.com/groups/indie/videos
  • https://vimeo.com/showcase/12345
  • https://vimeo.com/categories/documentary/videos/sort:featured/format:detail

Optional parameters:

• Sort Order: Override the URL sort param. The options are (featured (cateogory only), relevant (category only), date, alphabetical, plays, likes, duration)
• Maximum Items Per URL: Limit the number of videos to scrape (default: 50)
• Search Term: Filter videos by search keyword within the category or group

📦 What You'll Get (Output)

The actor outputs a dataset containing the following fields for each video:

• id: Unique identifier of the video
• url: Direct URL to the video
• title: Title of the video
• duration: Duration of the video in seconds
• authorName: Name of the video author
• authorUrl: URL to the author's profile
• uploadedAt: Date and time the video was uploaded (ISO 8601 format)
• playsCount: Number of times the video has been played
• likesCount: Number of likes on the video
• commentsCount: Number of comments on the video
• description: Description of the video
• thumbnailUrl: URL of the video thumbnail image
• tags: Array of tags associated with the video

📥 Video Output Example

{
    "id": "137602",
    "url": "https://vimeo.com/showcase/3151326/video/137602",
    "title": "Mutations",
    "duration": 324,
    "authorName": "David Winkfield",
    "authorUrl": "https://vimeo.com/davidwinkfield",
    "uploadedAt": "2007-02-07T18:33:32+00:00",
    "playsCount": null,
    "likesCount": 2,
    "commentsCount": 0,
    "description": "A cyborg, surviving in a post apocalyptic dystopia, must repair itself before reaching its expiration date",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/46932837-580f6abcdf4c23ebc5bfd4deaeb3e30ad8d434c5f285f192d4501a22691e3a5f-d_360x203?&r=pad&region=us",
    "tags": []
}

💲 How much will scraping Vimeo videos cost you?

The pricing changes according to your Apify plan.

Plan	Price per 1,000 videos
Free	$5.00
Starter	$2.40
Scale	$1.50
Business	$1.50

💡 Free Plan users can scrape up to 20 videos per run. To remove this limit, become a paying user by upgrading your Apify plan: View Pricing

🧩 Integrations and Vimeo Scraper

Vimeo Scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform. You can integrate with Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Sheets, Google Drive, and more. Or you can use webhooks to carry out an action whenever an event occurs, e.g. get a notification whenever Vimeo Scraper successfully finishes a run.

🔌 Using Vimeo Scraper with the Apify API

The Apify API gives you programmatic access to the Apify platform. The API is organized around RESTful HTTP endpoints that enable you to manage, schedule, and run Apify actors. The API also lets you access any datasets, monitor actor performance, fetch results, create and update versions, and more.

To access the API using Node.js, use the apify-client NPM package. To access the API using Python, use the apify-client PyPI package.

Check out the Apify API reference docs for full details or click on the API tab for code examples.

💬 Giving feedback

We're always working on improving the performance of our Actors. So if you've got any technical feedback for Vimeo Scraper or simply found a bug, please create an issue on the Actor's Issues tab in Apify Console.

📧 Email: nathan.santos159@hotmail.com