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Grab a thumbnail of a private (but embeddable) Vimeo video
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grab_vimeo_thumbnail.php
<?php
/**
* Grab the url of a publicly embeddable video hosted on vimeo
* @param str $video_url The "embed" url of a video
* @return str The url of the thumbnail, or false if there's an error
*/
function grab_vimeo_thumbnail($vimeo_url){
if( !$vimeo_url ) return false;
$data = json_decode( file_get_contents( 'http://vimeo.com/api/oembed.json?url=' . $vimeo_url ) );
if( !$data ) return false;
return $data->thumbnail_url;
}
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fo-rk commented Feb 8, 2023

Hey @shaunkardinal, have a look at my last comment: you can use PHP to replace the ..._640 at the end of thumbnail_url with any crop you like, eg _1920x1080. It's undocumented, but works.

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oh! i see the issue, a classic—the example code you gave had the separator/string mixed up! thanks again @monowales 🙏

return explode('_', $data->thumbnail_url)[0].'_1920x1080';

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I just removed the resolution entirely and it give me the highest resolution image
return explode('_', $data->thumbnail_url)[0]

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