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Grab a thumbnail of a private (but embeddable) Vimeo video
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| <?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; | |
| } |
Does this work for private videos as well?
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I just removed the resolution entirely and it give me the highest resolution image
return explode('_', $data->thumbnail_url)[0]