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Automate Vimeo

Video teams use Vimeo automations to announce new uploads, catch videos that fail to transcode and follow plays from week to week. Describe what you want to know about your videos to your AI assistant, review the steps it suggests, and it keeps watching your account.

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Try asking

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 15 minutes, check my Vimeo account for new videos and post each one's title and link to #marketing in Slack.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

Ideas

What you can automate in Vimeo

Here you can share new uploads with the team, spot processing errors early and get a weekly view of which videos are being played. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
Every 15 minutes

Share new Vimeo videos with your team

Shortly after you publish a video, Slack gets its title and link.

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Weekly

Get your top videos by plays each week

Each Monday you get plays per video and the change since last week.

See how it works
Hourly

Catch uploads that fail to process

You hear within the hour if an upload is stuck or failed to transcode.

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Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Vimeo, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any Vimeo automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what Vimeo should do in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Every morning, check my Vimeo library for videos that failed transcoding or have no description, and send me the list.

When a new video is uploaded to my Vimeo account, post its title and link to our #marketing Slack channel.

Every Monday, pull last week's Vimeo plays per video, add them to Google Sheets, and email the top five videos to the team through Gmail.

Beyond chat

Have Vimeo work when you're not in the chat

Connecting Vimeo to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.

Setup

Connect Vimeo

Vimeo uses a personal access token generated from an app in your own Vimeo developer account. It acts only on your account.

Vimeo

Video

  1. On the Vimeo developer site, create an app or pick an existing one.
  2. Under Authentication, choose Generate Access Token and select Authenticated (you).
  3. Tick the scopes your automation needs, such as public and private, then generate and copy the token.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, save the token as a secret on Connections & secrets.

Good to know

Vimeo limits that affect automations

  • A personal access token only reaches your own Vimeo account, not other users' videos.
  • Some features, such as video_files and detailed analytics, need a paid Vimeo plan.
  • Rate limits depend on your plan; Vimeo reports what is left in X-RateLimit-* response headers.
  • These automations check your account on a schedule, such as every 15 minutes or hourly.

FAQ

Questions about automating Vimeo

What can ClickRuntime see in my Vimeo account?
With the `private` scope it can list your videos, including their links, play counts and transcode status.
Can it tell me when a video fails to process?
Yes. An hourly check reads each recent video's transcode status and emails you about any that are stuck or in an error state.
Will the weekly report work on a free Vimeo plan?
Play counts per video are available, but more detailed analytics need a paid Vimeo plan.
Do I need to bring an AI key?
No. AI is part of every ClickRuntime plan, and these Vimeo jobs don't use it.
Is this a Vimeo connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with Vimeo data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change Vimeo while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each Vimeo event.

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