Vimeo

From the Vimeo Simple API docs:

Making a Video Request

To get data about a specific video,

use the following url:

http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/video_id.output

video_id The ID of the video you want information for.

output Specify the

output type. We currently offer JSON,

PHP, and XML formats.

So getting this URL http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/6271487.xml

    <videos> 

      <video> 

        [skipped]

<thumbnail_small>http://ts.vimeo.com.s3.amazonaws.com/235/662/23566238_100.jpg</thumbnail_small> 

        <thumbnail_medium>http://ts.vimeo.com.s3.amazonaws.com/235/662/23566238_200.jpg</thumbnail_medium> 

        <thumbnail_large>http://ts.vimeo.com.s3.amazonaws.com/235/662/23566238_640.jpg</thumbnail_large> 

        [skipped]

    </videos>

Parse this for every video to get the thumbnail

Here's approximate code in PHP

<?php



$imgid = 6271487;



$hash = unserialize(file_get_contents("http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/$imgid.php"));



echo $hash[0]['thumbnail_medium'];