Vimeo embedding

vimeo-embed-url.html

<!-- Historically, Vimeo URLs of the following form would work as a straightforward `src` attribute value on an iframe -->

    <iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/123456789" width="X" height="Y" allowfullscreen></iframe>
  
<!-- At some point in September 2021 Vimeo changed this, so that URLs require an `h` parameter to work -->

    <iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/123456789?h=8yt65b2a98" width="X" height="Y" allowfullscreen></iframe>

<!-- 
    In the above examples: 

    * `123456789` should be your video ID and `8yt65b2a98` should be its unique key.
    * The X and Y width and height values should be replaced with
      whatever numbers work for your context. I like to use  width="336" height="189" 
      as a decent mobile friendly baseline of 16:9 proportions.

    What HTML your iframe is wrapped in should take care of how it ends up getting 
    styled to fit its container. For basic usage, Vimeo’s *full* embed code works, 
    but I like to get rid of all the cruft.
-->

The canonical page for the example video above would be:

https://vimeo.com/123456789/8yt65b2a98

So this can be coerced into the embed schema with a regular expression (regex) like this:

Regex search pattern:

^.*vimeo\.com/([0-9]+)/(.*)$

Regex replacement pattern:

https://player.vimeo.com/video/$1?h=$2

This could, for example, be applied to a regular Vimeo URL in cell A2 in a Google Sheet, to output the embed equivalent in a neighbouring column with:

=REGEXREPLACE(A2,"^.*vimeo.*com/([0-9]+)/(.*)$", "https://player.vimeo.com/video/$1?h=$2")

Any additional URL parameters, such as autoplay=1, should be appended (with a preceding &), so the spreadsheet formula could be adapted to:

=REGEXREPLACE(A2,"^.*vimeo.*com/([0-9]+)/(.*)$", "https://player.vimeo.com/video/$1?h=$2&autoplay=1")

Thanks for this 🙏