I've tried GET /videos/{videoId} as well as /videos?query={query}&per_page=1
Both of these return successfully and I am able to see things like title, URL, etc in the JSON, but no matter how I hit the Vimeo API, the stats.plays attribute seems to always be null. I've tried multiple videos.
I'm using basic authentication with their API.
Here is a sample of the JSON I get back:
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