Archiving Vimeo videos

Overview

Vimeo is a video hosting and sharing platform. Due to the complexity with which Vimeo constructs and serves its video links, Vimeo videos can be challenging to crawl, archive, and replay. This guide provides an overview of how to properly format, scope, and crawl Vimeo seeds.

Known issues

⚠️ We're aware of issues collecting and replaying videos from Vimeo seeds and embeds, beginning in mid-July 2024. If successfully collected, you can replay the video(s) through the Wayback banner.

For a full list of known issues for archiving various platforms please visit our Status of monitored platforms page.

On this page

• How to select and format your Vimeo seeds
• Scoping Vimeo seeds
• Running your crawl
• What to expect from archived Vimeo seeds

How to select and format your Vimeo videos

You can archive select Vimeo videos by adding each to your collection as its own seed (for example: https://vimeo.com/7237058/). We recommend setting these seeds to the One Page seed type. This will enable you to archive the video from the live page without capturing excessive and undesired additional material that could negatively affect your account's data budget.

Scoping Vimeo seeds

No additional scoping is required for archiving Vimeo pages. 

You can archive Vimeo videos that are embedded onto other pages by expanding the scope of your crawl at the seed or collection level to include URLs that match the following SURT: http://(com,vimeocdn,

(collection level scoping rules shown here) 

Running your crawl

We recommend using Brozzler to crawl Vimeo videos.

What to expect from archived Vimeo seeds

We're aware of issues collecting and replaying videos from Vimeo seeds and embeds. If successfully collected, you can replay the video through the Wayback banner. Watch this page for updates on archiving Vimeo, including the ability to crawl and replay Vimeo channels (for example: http://vimeo.com/bates).