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Simple API

The Simple API is a very simple interface to access lots of data from Vimeo. You can get data via JSON, XML, and serialized PHP. You do not need a Developer API Key to use the Simple API.
Full documentation on the Simple API

Advanced API

The Advanced API is more complicated than the Simple API, but you can get a lot more data from it. You will need a Developer API Key to use the Advanced API. If you want to test out the Advanced API, head over to the Sandbox.
Full documentation on the Advanced API

oEmbed

oEmbed is an open standard for embedding videos or images into a website. You can use the Vimeo URL of any video to easily get the embed code for that video. You do not need a Developer API Key to use oEmbed.
Full documentation on oEmbed

User Agents

Please note that we do not allow the libwww_perl user agent. So if you're using that perl library, please make sure to set a custom user agent field. If you're using any standard network libraries (curl, etc), you should change the default user agent. We reserve the right to ban those in the future too.