Getting # of videos in each album plus entire list from API in the Vimeo API Forum

Robert Katz 3 months ago

I've seen this before, but I can't seem to find a way to do it. I've been able to get the description and title/url. I also want to be able to get the number of videos in each album. I'm currently doing this:

channel->item as $video)
{
echo 'link.'">'.$video->title.'';
echo $video->description;
}
?>

That's just to get those two things. I don't see anyway in the API to determine what album each video belongs to. I see it happening on the album page on vimeo so I hope you guys can make that available to developers.
Ted Roden 3 months ago

Sadly, at this point, there is no Albums or Channels in the API. I expect this to be resolved soon.
Robert Katz 3 months ago

Well the reason I ask is because of this: chrispederick.com/videos/

Looks like he has all that info, unless he's manually entering it. I doubt that he's using cURL or something to scrape the page for the data because that would be overkill.
Ted Roden 3 months ago

I think he must be scrapping it or hard coding it... that stuff will be in the API soon, but I don't think there is any way yet. Unless my memory and grep skills are sorely lacking today.

Anyways, I contacted Chris... perhaps he'll come and let us know how he did it.

You should be able to get that data soon though.
chrispederick 3 months ago

Hey guys - Ted is right I actually have a PHP file on my site that I manually update that associates videos with albums and I use this to display the numbers of videos in an album.

That's great that this is coming soon in the API though, Ted.
Imran Ali 2 months ago

I also need to get album videos.
flogee 2 months ago

i need this feature too
Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken 2 months ago

hey guys, sorry about the delay here. unfortunately we lost Ted, our API guru.

i'm attempting to fill his shoes, but i already have my hands full with other projects. i'll try and get these features in our dev queue. if not, hopefully i can work on them in my time between projects.

stay tuned.
Robert Katz 1 month ago

Lost Ted meaning that he quit?
RCHeliResource.Com 1 month ago

wow are you guys hiring??
Brad Dougherty 24 days ago

Hey guys, I'm gonna be working on bringing the API up-to-date in the next couple weeks. Albums, channels, and groups are definitely on the agenda.