Status/progress of automatic pull upload through Vimeo API

Question

I am developing a c# application to upload videos to Vimeo throough the Vimeo API. Everything's gone fine so far, but I cannot find a way to check the progress of video uploading to Vimeo when using automatic pull uploads. I don't want percentage values (which we can derive in regular uploads), but just a success or failure response would suffice. Is there any way I can do this through an API call?

Answer 1

The response of your inital POST request to /me/videos is the full clip representation. On that representation is a status field, that will contain one of the following values:

• uploading
• transcoding
• uploading_error
• transcoding_error
• available
• quota_exceeded

The uri of that representation is an API endpoint that you can store, and call again in the future to receive an updated status.

eg:

POST https://api.vimeo.com/me/videos
type=streaming&link=http://example.com/my/video/mp4

{
    "uri": "/videos/12345",
    .....truncated.....
    "status": "uploading"
}

[some time later]

GET https://api.vimeo.com/videos/12345

{
    "uri": "/videos/12345",
    .....truncated.....
    "status": "available"
}