Excel Spreadsheet Automation on Vimeo Data with the QUERY Formula

The CData Excel Add-In for Vimeo provides formulas that can query Vimeo data. The following three steps show how you can automate the following task: Search Vimeo data for a user-specified value and then organize the results into an Excel spreadsheet.

The syntax of the CDATAQUERY formula is the following:

=CDATAQUERY(Query, [Connection], [Parameters], [ResultLocation]);

This formula requires three inputs:

• Query: The declaration of the Vimeo data records you want to retrieve, written in standard SQL.

• Connection: Either the connection name, such as APIConnection1, or a connection string. The connection string consists of the required properties for connecting to Vimeo data, separated by semicolons.

  Vimeo is a professional video hosting platform. The Vimeo API uses personal access tokens (bearer tokens) to enable secure access to video metadata, user information, channels, groups, categories, and related resources.

  Using API Key Authentication

  To authenticate to the Vimeo API, you will need to provide a personal access token. To obtain your access token:

  1. Log in to your Vimeo account at https://vimeo.com
  2. Navigate to https://developer.vimeo.com/apps
  3. Create a new app or select an existing app
  4. Under "Personal Access Tokens", click "Generate" to create a new token
  5. Select the required scopes: public and private for read access
  6. Copy the generated token

  After obtaining your access token, set the following connection properties:

  • AuthScheme: Set this to APIKey.
  • APIKey: Set this to your Vimeo personal access token.

  Example connection string

  Profile=C:\profiles\Vimeo.apip;ProfileSettings='APIKey=your_personal_access_token';
  

• ResultLocation: The cell that the output of results should start from.

Pass Spreadsheet Cells as Inputs to the Query

The procedure below results in a spreadsheet that organizes all the formula inputs in the first column.

1. Define cells for the formula inputs. In addition to the connection inputs, add another input to define a criterion for a filter to be used to search Vimeo data, such as UserUri.
2. In another cell, write the formula, referencing the cell values from the user input cells defined above. Single quotes are used to enclose values such as addresses that may contain spaces.

=CDATAQUERY("SELECT * FROM Videos WHERE UserUri = '"&B4&"'","Profile="&B1&";ProfileSettings="&B2&";Provider=API",B5)

👁 Formula inputs used in this example. (Google Apps is shown.)

3. Change the filter to change the data. 👁 The outputs of the formula. (Google Apps is shown.)