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Oddworks Vimeo Provider

A Vimeo provider plugin for the Oddworks content server.

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Installation

Install the npm package as a Node.js library:

npm install --save oddworks-vimeo-provider

For full Vimeo API documentation see developer.vimeo.com/api.

Oddworks Server Integration

The Oddworks-Vimeo provider is designed to be integrated with an Oddworks server catalog, specifically as a provider. To initialize the plugin in your server:

const vimeoProvider = require('oddworks-vimeo-provider');

// See https://gitlab.com/oddnetworks/oddworks/core/tree/master/lib/services/catalog#patterns
// for more information regarding an Oddcast Bus.
const bus = createMyOddcastBus();

const options = {
    bus: bus,
    accessToken: process.env.VIMEO_ACCESS_TOKEN
};

vimeoProvider.initialize(options).then(provider => {
    console.log('Initialized provider "%s"', provider.name);
}).catch(err => {
    console.error(err.stack || err.message || err);
});

The initialization process will attach Oddcast listeners for the following queries:

  • bus.query({role: 'provider', cmd: 'get', source: 'vimeo-video'})
  • bus.query({role: 'provider', cmd: 'get', source: 'vimeo-album'})

To use them you send Oddcast commands to save a specification object:

// To create a collection based on a Vimeo album:
bus.sendCommand({role: 'catalog', cmd: 'setItemSpec'}, {
    channel: 'abc',
    type: 'collectionSpec',
    source: 'vimeo-album',
    album: {uri: '/users/12345/albums/678901'}
});

// To create a video based on a Vimeo video:
bus.sendCommand({role: 'catalog', cmd: 'setItemSpec'}, {
    channel: 'abc',
    type: 'videoSpec',
    source: 'vimeo-video',
    video: {uri: '/videos/1234567'}
});

Transform Functions

This library provides a default transform function for collections and assets. It is fine to use the default, but you can provide your own like this:

const vimeoProvider = require('oddworks-vimeo-provider');
const bus = createMyOddcastBus();

const options = {
    bus: bus,
    collectionTransform: myCollectionTransform,
    videoTransform: myVideoTransform
};

vimeoProvider.initialize(options).then(provider => {
    console.log('Initialized provider "%s"', provider.name);
}).catch(err => {
    console.error(err.stack || err.message || err);
});

Your transform functions myCollectionTransform and myVideoTransform will be called when the vimeo-collection and vimeo-video have respectively received a response from the Vimeo API.

The myCollectionTransform and myVideoTransform functions will each be called with 2 arguments: The spec object and the Vimeo API response object for an album or video, respectively.

See lib/default-collection-transform and lib/default-video-transform for more info.

Vimeo API Client

You can create a stand-alone API client outside of the Oddworks provider:

const vimeoProvider = require('oddworks-vimeo-provider');

const client = vimeoProvider.createClient({
    bus: bus,
    accessToken: process.env.VIMEO_ACCESS_TOKEN
});

Client Methods

All methods return a Promise.

Query Strings

All methods support query strings. Simply provide the {query} key a hash of the query strings to use. This is handy for certain endpoints like list endpoints.

List endpoints such as client.getAlbums(), client.getVideosByAlbum({albumUri}), or client.getVideos() are pageable. The default number of items per page is 25 and the max number of items per-page is 50. If your account contains more than 25 videos or albums, or your album contains more than 25 videos, you will need to pass query params in order to fetch the rest of your data.

Example:

const albumId = '12345';
const query = {
  page: 2,
  per_page: 25
};

client
  .getVideosByAlbum({albumId, query})
  .then(res => {
    console.log(JSON.stringify(res, null, 2));
  });

Command Line Interface

You can interact with the Vimeo client using the CLI tool. To get started, run:

bin/vimeo --help

To authenticate the API you'll need to export the following environment variables:

  • VIMEO_ACCESS_TOKEN The Vimeo API access token

To get help with commands:

bin/vimeo list --help
bin/vimeo req --help

License

Apache 2.0 © Odd Networks