Vimeo video not showing in search results

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Hello,

I am a new user of Watch2Gether, and have uploaded a sample video to Vimeo, to see if I could watch it with someone.

However, when I copy/paste the link to the page with the video, I get “No items found…”, even though I copied and pasted the exact address into the search box.

This is true if I use the Watch2Gether website, and when I use the “Go Watch2Gether” button on my browser tool bar.

However, if I adjust the privacy settings on the video in Vimeo to “Anyone – Allow anyone to see this video” then I can find it in Watch2Gether; but with any other privacy setting I can not find/view it.

Is there a way to view Vimeo videos, that have a privacy setting that is more restrictive than “Anyone – Allow anyone to see this video” ?

Please let me know how I can work around this limitation.

Thank you very much for your help with this!

Best Regards,

Bob

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Hi Bob, it seems that Vimeo hides all videos with more restrictive settings than “Anyone” from the search and player API. Unfortunately there is not much i can do about it as this is enforced on the Vimeo backend systems. There will be a feature in Watch2Gether which allows you to watch content from private storage. This will be live in ~ 1 month. Im interested to learn what your use case would be for such a feature…

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Hello Florian,

Thanks for your quick reply!
My use case for this feature is that the videos I wish to watch with others are either personal (which I don’t want to have visible to everyone) or proprietary which are not to be publicly posted.
As is, with Watch2Gether, I can not share/view these videos.
I am looking forward to your future changes that will allow this viewing, thanks!
Bob