Is playing Vimeo video can affect Vimeo rate limit?

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.