Vimeo Video Scraper

An Apify Actor that extracts video data from Vimeo profile or channel pages. It's built to handle Vimeo's bot detection and pagination, outputting a clean dataset of video metadata.

Overview

This actor scrapes video information from a given Vimeo URL. It uses a headless browser with anti-detection techniques to load the page, click "Load more" buttons automatically, and extract video details. The output is a structured JSON list of videos, up to a configurable maximum limit.

Key Features

• Anti-detection & Stealth: Implements browser fingerprinting overrides, realistic HTTP headers, and simulated mouse movements to avoid blocking.
• Robust Pagination: Automatically finds and clicks "Load more" buttons to gather videos, with logic to prevent duplicate clicks.
• Multiple Extraction Strategies: Uses four different methods (link analysis, container search, etc.) to reliably find video data on the page.
• Proxy Support: Configurable to use Apify Proxy or custom proxies to prevent IP-based rate limiting.
• Error Handling: Continues scraping if individual elements fail, using fallback loading strategies if a page times out.
• Duplicate Filtering: Intelligently removes duplicate video entries and irrelevant navigation links from the results.

How to Use

Configure the actor with input parameters via the Apify platform, API, or SDK. The main required input is the target Vimeo URL.

Input Parameters

Output

The actor outputs a dataset of video objects in JSON format. Each object contains:

[
  {
    "title": "The Macallan: The Heart of the Spirit Pixel Artworks",
    "url": "https://vimeo.com/999441939",
    "videoId": "999441939"
  }
]

How It Works

1. Initialization: Launches a stealth-configured browser and navigates to the provided url.
2. Page Loading: Employs an aggressive loading strategy, trying multiple readiness states (networkidle, domcontentloaded) to cope with Vimeo's dynamic content.
3. Video Extraction: Executes several parallel strategies to find all video links and metadata on the loaded page.
4. Pagination: Searches for and clicks any "Load more" button, repeating the extraction process. This loops until no more buttons are found or the videoMax limit is reached.
5. Data Processing: Filters out duplicates and non-video links, then pushes the clean results to the dataset.

Note: This tool is for educational and research purposes. Ensure your use complies with Vimeo's Terms of Service and relevant laws.