Archive embedded Vimeo videos with this new scoping rule
Partners have long had the ability to crawl, archive, and replay video “watch” pages from vimeo.com. With a little tweak to your crawling scope, however, you can now also archive the Vimeo-based videos that appear within other pages in your collection (like this one: http://wayback.archive-it.org/7230/20160401174912/https://amacollective.wordpress.com/2014/12/12/ddtm1-chester-lusk/).
To archive Vimeo-hosted videos that are embedded into the pages in your collection's scope, simply expand the scope of your next crawl to include URLs that match the following SURT: +http://(com,vimeocdn,
Here's how that looks like in practice, from your collection's management view in the Archive-It web app:

We've added this little rule to our general guidance on archiving Vimeo videos, but let us know if have any trouble adding these videos to your collections.
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