Private Vimeo thumbnails are missing

did someone found any solution?

@AndrewsizZ

Still supports and works.

Request:
https://vimeo.com/api/oembed.json?url=https://player.vimeo.com/video/vid...

Response:

Check function _video_embed_field_get_vimeo_data in D7 version.

I am not sure if this is the right place to comment on, but if thumbnail generation just works with public videos on vimeo it should be documented somewhere in the meantime.

something like

1. Make your videos privacy settings on vimeo.com to public
2. Add your video to your media library or content
3. run cron manually to make shure image gest generated quite well
4. change the privacy settings for the affected video on vimeo.com, back to something else than public

As long as this is the only workaround it should be at least documented in the read me file as well on the modules page or in documentation as well as drupal's help system.

This bug is still active for 8.x, too so I'll create a new one with the same content.

It's now possible to get meta data such as thumb url when vimeo video is private.
See API description (https://developer.vimeo.com/api/oembed/videos)

NOTE: In the case of a video with domain-level privacy, the oEmbed request returns a simplified response containing the embed code only and no private metadata. To get the complete response, send the Referer header along with the request, and set its value to the video's whitelisted domain.

So if we set the Referer and the domain we are using is whitelisted in privacy settings this will start working again.

Find patch attached.

Thank you @nimoatwoodway

Patch #5 works for me.

This is not the best solution, better will be to implement new Vimeo's API, but it's fastest solution for this issue.

Agreed; the patch in #5 works by adding the "Referer" header. But the thumbnail is small, and we could get higher resolution thumbnails by using Vimeo's API:

https://developer.vimeo.com/api/reference/videos#get_video_thumbnails

Though, that should probably happen in a separate issue.

I created an issue to use the Vimeo API (rather than oEmbed) which would resolve this issue as well.

#3105171: Use Vimeo API to get thumbnails

@joelstein

Sounds great to me. Thank you.

#5 worked for me. Not sure about usage if Vimeo API.

Note that this is an issue for Drupal 8 as well. Non-public vimeo videos will not return a thumbnail_url unless the referrer is set. See Vimeo docs at https://developer.vimeo.com/api/oembed/videos#embedding-a-video-with-oem...

for videos with the whitelist privacy setting — that is, videos with domain-level privacy — the results are a little different. The oEmbed request returns a simplified response containing no private metadata

To get the complete response, including the private metadata, send the Referer header with the request, and set its value to the video's whitelisted domain.

Note that PHP docs specifically say that using $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] is unreliable:

The address of the page (if any) which referred the user agent to the current page. This is set by the user agent. Not all user agents will set this, and some provide the ability to modify HTTP_REFERER as a feature. In short, it cannot really be trusted.

You need to get the base url from Drupal, not the server directly.

** Ignore -- see patch below ***
This is also a problem in the D8/9 version of this module. Patch attached.

Updated D9 patch.

I didn't realize my code *already* had a patch applied for a different (but related) Vimeo issue: #2872795: Error generating video thumbnail