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1. chavo
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Hi. Does anyone know if is possible to get an automatic vimeo thumbnail to use in my own template design?. I want to do a list of videos (posts) and I want to display the thumbnail at left and the post title at right, son I need to generate, if is possible, an automatic thumbnail from a vimeo video.

   Thanks in advance.

2. ddools
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   i woiuld also be really intrested in this(if its possible?)

3. Viper007Bond
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   No idea.

4. tomasvrana
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Hi it's no big problem for youtube as they store the picture with the video id in the url, others suck ...

   for my quick use i didn't find plugin doing it completely, so i use Viper's Video Quicktags, which grabs the image and puts it instead when JS is disabled, so i just load the_content as it goes and trim the things off to get the address. The way is a bit jerky but it works for now. Hope helps.
   TV

   <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
   		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   <?php 
   
   $nolines = '/[\n\r]/';
   $cont = get_the_content(null, 0, '');
   $cont = apply_filters('the_content', $cont);
   $tillnolines = preg_replace($nolines, ' ', $cont);
   $till = preg_replace('/^(.*)(com\/watch)/', '', $tillnolines);
   $almost = preg_replace('/(alt\=\"YouTube Preview Image\")(.*)/', '', $till);
   $core = preg_replace('/(.*)( src=)/', '', $almost);
   echo '<img class="prev video" src='.$core.' alt="" />';
   
   ?>
   		<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

5. tomasvrana
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Here's Vimeo Thumbnail thing.
   

   <?
   $imgid = 4715514;
   $hash = unserialize(file_get_contents("http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/$imgid.php"));
   print_r($hash);
   echo '<br />';
   foreach($hash as $hashed){
   echo $hashed[thumbnail_medium];
   }
   
   ?>

6. Viper007Bond
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   My plugin already displays YouTube's thumbnail if JS disabled.

   However I didn't know about the Vimeo one. That's handy.

7. jtclark18
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   If anyone can still help me with this subject I really need the help. I'm new to Wordpress as well as PHP, and I need Vimeo's Thumbnail.

   I've tried to place the code above in the Viper script but I obviously have not done this correctly. Where do you place the above script? Does it go in a Viper plug-in file? If so, do you have to add anything when you post the embedded video?

   Thanks for your help!

8. chavo
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   There is still a plugin that gets a thumbnail from Vimeo but it doesn't was as usefull as I want. This plugin is Vimeo Badge

   http://www.colak.net/vimeo-badge/

   I currently use a workaround using Vimeo widget to emulate a video list player. Therefore I will try using the code that Tomas posted.

   jtclark18: I guess that you have to put the code within the_loop as follows:

   <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
   		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   <?
   $imgid = 4715514;
   $hash = unserialize(file_get_contents("http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/$imgid.php"));
   print_r($hash);
   echo '<br />';
   foreach($hash as $hashed){
   echo $hashed[thumbnail_medium];
   }
   
   ?>
   		<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

   I not sure if $imgid = 4715514; is equal to the vimeo video id.

   Thanks for your help to everyone!

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