# Vimeo Scraper (Category, Showcase and Groups) (`natanielsantos/vimeo-scraper-category-showcase-and-groups`) Actor
Scrape videos from Vimeo categories, groups, and showcases. Get video metadata including video URLs, titles, author information, duration, play count, like coun, comment count, and more.
- **URL**: https://apify.com/natanielsantos/vimeo-scraper-category-showcase-and-groups.md
- **Developed by:** [Nataniel Santos](https://apify.com/natanielsantos) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Videos
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet
## Pricing
from $1.50 / 1,000 results
This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.
Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event
## What's an Apify Actor?
Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".
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# README
### 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
```json
{
"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®ion=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](https://apify.com/pricing?fpr=3sjvz)
### 🧩 Integrations and Vimeo Scraper
Vimeo Scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to [integrations on the Apify platform](https://apify.com/integrations). You can integrate with Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Sheets, Google Drive, [and more](https://docs.apify.com/integrations). Or you can use [webhooks](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/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](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2) docs for full details or click on the [API tab](https://apify.com/natanielsantos/vimeo-scraper/api) 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](https://apify.com/natanielsantos/vimeo-scraper/issues/open) in Apify Console.
📧 Email: nathan.santos159@hotmail.com
# Actor input Schema
## `startUrls` (type: `array`):
Vimeo category, group, or showcase video page URLs to scrape. Supports category URLs (e.g. https://vimeo.com/categories/documentary/videos), group URLs (e.g. https://vimeo.com/groups/indie/videos), and showcase URLs (e.g. https://vimeo.com/showcase/12345). You may include sort/page/search params — they will be preserved unless overridden by the Sort option below.
## `maxItemsPerUrl` (type: `integer`):
Maximum number of videos to scrape per start URL (following pagination).
## `overrideUrlParams` (type: `boolean`):
When enabled, the Sort option below will override any sort parameter present in the start URLs. If disabled, the start URLs will be scraped as-is.
## `sort` (type: `string`):
Sort order for the videos. When set, overrides any sort parameter present in the start URLs. Note: 'featured' and 'relevant' are only available for category pages, not group pages.
## `searchTerm` (type: `string`):
Optional search term to filter the videos. When set, only videos matching the search term will be scraped. Note: This will override any search parameter present in the start URLs.
## Actor input object example
```json
{
"startUrls": [
"https://vimeo.com/categories/documentary/videos/page:3/sort:featured/format:detail",
"https://vimeo.com/groups/indie/videos/page:2/search:mar/sort:date/format:detail"
],
"maxItemsPerUrl": 50,
"overrideUrlParams": false
}
```
# Actor output Schema
## `results` (type: `string`):
No description
# API
You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.
## JavaScript example
```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
token: '',
});
// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
"startUrls": [
"https://vimeo.com/categories/documentary/videos/sort:featured/format:detail",
"https://vimeo.com/groups/indie/videos/sort:date/format:detail"
],
"maxItemsPerUrl": 50
};
// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("natanielsantos/vimeo-scraper-category-showcase-and-groups").call(input);
// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
console.dir(item);
});
// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs
```
## Python example
```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient
# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("")
# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
"startUrls": [
"https://vimeo.com/categories/documentary/videos/sort:featured/format:detail",
"https://vimeo.com/groups/indie/videos/sort:date/format:detail",
],
"maxItemsPerUrl": 50,
}
# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("natanielsantos/vimeo-scraper-category-showcase-and-groups").call(run_input=run_input)
# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
print(item)
# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start
```
## CLI example
```bash
echo '{
"startUrls": [
"https://vimeo.com/categories/documentary/videos/sort:featured/format:detail",
"https://vimeo.com/groups/indie/videos/sort:date/format:detail"
],
"maxItemsPerUrl": 50
}' |
apify call natanielsantos/vimeo-scraper-category-showcase-and-groups --silent --output-dataset
```
## MCP server setup
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"apify": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,natanielsantos/vimeo-scraper-category-showcase-and-groups"
}
}
}
```
The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer ` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).
## OpenAPI specification
Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/FJBE3ud0XS7cmRg5l/builds/PljCaPcLrsQJu88bH/openapi.json