GET /videos endpoint does not work for links

I’m trying to get the video metadata given a vimeo video URL, and found from this StackOverflow answer that I should use the https://api.vimeo.com/videos endpoint with the links query parameter.

When I try to fire this query via this library with:

const links = 'https://vimeo.com/35055590'

client.request({
  method: 'GET',
  path: '/videos',
  query: {
    query: undefined,
    links: links,
    sort: 'relevant',
    per_page: 50,
    page: 1,
    fields: 'name,pictures.sizes,user.name,link'
  }
}, (err, body, code, headers) => {
  if (err) {
    console.error(err)
  }
})

I get an error reporting:

Error: {"error":"Something strange occurred. Please try again.","link":null,"developer_message":"The query param provided is not supported for the request.","error_code":2101}
    at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/home/guru/workspace/videoshare-development/node_modules/vimeo/lib/vimeo.js:164:19)
    at emitNone (events.js:111:20)
    at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:208:7)
    at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1064:12)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:138:11)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:180:9)

[gurupras]

Ah okay great. I’ll update my requests to remove sort when trying to use links. Thanks a lot for looking into this!

[erunion]

Hey @gurupras, I looked into this this morning and there isn’t a bug here. What’s going on is that we don’t allow sorting on batch requests to /videos.

Remove sort: 'relevant', from your request and it’ll succeed.