accessing private videos on Vimeo, through Vimeo API

Question

I used https://player.vimeo.com/video/id/config, to get the private videos on Vimeo account. But now this api is deprecated, is there a way to get the private videos on Vimeo. I tried authorizing to Vimeo getting the access token and using https://api.vimeo.com/videos/id api with authorization token, but I keep getting "Video not found" response. I am using this on iOS app, so I can't have whitelisted websites for a video to be displayed, the video is going to be showed in the app.

tried to use https://api.vimeo.com/videos/id api but getting "Video not found" response.

Answer 1

To access private videos, you need to ensure your access token is authenticated to you and has private scope. See below for what this looks like in the token dashboard.

Answer 2

You will need to have both the "private" scope and also "video files" scope to access the playback and download links of the video.