How to Download Transcriptions for Vimeo (& Feed Your AI With It)


This is a short guide on how to download transcript for any Vimeo!
So, you can use it for summarisation with #ai, or anything ;)

How to Download Vimeo Transcript

Watch the short "how-to" video guide to download Vimeo transcript here

Unfortunately, Vimeo has made changes to how they send transcriptions… so this tutorial no longer works :(

…pls check alternative approaches

Alternative Way 1 - Vimeo API

Vimeo has got public api accessible for every registered user.
The only thing that needs to be done, is to obtain API key via their Developer's portal.
Once you create your app, and get the API key, you can do requests like this one:

curl --location 'https://api.vimeo.com/videos/<VIDEO ID>/texttracks' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <YOUR TOKEN>'

NOTE: Getting transcription with this approach works only for public videos - not for videos available with link only

Alternative Way 2 - Locally

This is the approach which works for me every time.
GitHub - yt-dlp/yt-dlp: A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader utility can be used to download not only #yt videos, but also Vimeo videos (every video accessible via link).
And once you download it, you can use any of the variety free tools like 🎙️ MacWhisper (my fav!) to transcribe video.
(this approach basically works for any video, even if not transcriptions are originally available)



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