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I am getting rate "limit exceed error". I know about Vimeo rate limit conditions and I am caching api calls response for reducing Vimeo hits.

I am not sure that playing a Vimeo video can affect rate limit or not.

I am using Vimeo video external player url for playing video in my iOS project.

Example: https://player.vimeo.com/external/176590201.sd.mp4?s=......&profile_id=...&oauth2_token_id=...

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Is it possible that playing a Vimeo video consider as a api call to Vimeo server and affect rate limit?

Any suggestion or link will much appreciated.

Mohd Haider
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  • I got a reply from Vimeo developer support that playing Vimeo video directly from external player url does not count as Api count. Only request to "api.vimeo.com" will considered as a api hit and affect rate limit. – Mohd Haider Aug 01 '16 at 18:40

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No, playing a Vimeo video (either using the external player link you mentioned or using the Vimeo iframe player) will not increment the API rate limit.

Only requests to https://api.vimeo.com where a response body is expected should increment the rate limit.

For example, GET https://api.vimeo.com/me (reading the metadata for your Vimeo account) will increment the rate limit because a response body is returned.

However DELETE https://api.vimeo.com/[complete_uri] (Completing a streaming upload) will not increment the rate limit because only a header is returned.

Tommy Penner
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  • Is this still the case? Is it correct that playing an embedded video using the Player SDK does not incur the rate limit? (Player SDK: https://developer.vimeo.com/player/sdk/basics) – SeanRtS Oct 29 '19 at 20:02
  • @9gt53wS Yes, that information is still accurate. The Player SDK is completely separate from the Vimeo API. – Tommy Penner Oct 31 '19 at 19:34