jQuery: get your latest video from Vimeo

Vimeo provides a full-featured set of APIs to retrieve data from user's profiles. The most used API is the oEmbed API. We can use this API to retrieve our latest video as a JSONP object with jQuery.

All we need to get our video is our user ID (not our username):

(function ($) {
    $.fn.vimeo = function (options) {
        var settings = {
            userid: '60155042'
        };

        options = $.extend(settings, options);

        var requestURL = 'http://vimeo.com/api/oembed.json?url=http://vimeo.com/' + options.userid + '&callback=?';

        var get = function(element) {
        	var html = '<div class="vimeo-video">';
            $.getJSON(requestURL, function (json) {
                html += '<h2>' + json.title + '</h2>';
                html += '<p>' + json.description + '</p>';
                html += json.html;
                html += '</div>';
                
                element.html(html);
            });
            
           
        };
        

        return this.each(function () {
        	var $element = $(this);
            get($element);
        });
    };
    })(jQuery);


$(function () {
    $('#wrapper').vimeo();
});

The returned JSON object is as follows:

({
	"type": "video",
	"version": "1.0",
	"provider_name": "Vimeo",
	"provider_url": "http:\/\/vimeo.com\/",
	"title": "Parallax site tested on iPad iOS6",
	"author_name": "Gabriele Romanato",
	"author_url": "http:\/\/vimeo.com\/gabrieleromanato",
	"is_plus": "1",
	"html": "<iframe src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/60155042\" width=\"468\" height=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>",
	"width": 468,
	"height": 640,
	"duration": 87,
	"description": "A jQuery-based parallax site tested on iPad without creating a specific mobile version.",
	"thumbnail_url": "http:\/\/b.vimeocdn.com\/ts\/418\/123\/418123816_295.jpg",
	"thumbnail_width": 295,
	"thumbnail_height": 403,
	"video_id": 60155042
})

[view-example url="http://jsfiddle.net/gabrieleromanato/gw6MQ/"]