Download videos from vimeo

[mjpost]

Many videos (e.g., ACL 2017) are just links to Vimeo. These should be downloaded in bulk and linked to locally.

Tasks:

• [x] Take stock of which proceedings link to Vimeo
  • [ ] D15.xml
  • [ ] D16.xml
  • [ ] D17.xml
  • [ ] D18.xml
  • [ ] N15.xml
  • [ ] N18.xml
  • [ ] N19.xml
  • [ ] P17.xml
  • [ ] P18.xml
  • [ ] P19.xml
  • [ ] Q14.xml
  • [ ] Q15.xml
  • [ ] Q16.xml
  • [ ] Q17.xml
  • [ ] Q18.xml
  • [ ] Q19.xml
  • [ ] W18.xml
• [ ] Download and label them all
• [ ] Switch links
• [ ] Double-check that all these videos are imported (we have these on Dropbox):

[davidstap]

Will do this in the next 2 weeks.

[davidstap]

I'm currently downloading and labeling all Vimeo videos. I also noticed a lot of videos pointing to slideslive, should I also download these? Also, I don't think I have access to the Dropbox you're referring to, can you share it with me?

[mjpost]

Just emailed you a link

On Jul 20, 2023, at 09:17, David Stap @.***> wrote:

I'm currently downloading and labeling all Vimeo videos. I also noticed a lot of videos pointing to slideslive, should I also download these? Also, I don't think I have access to the Dropbox you're referring to, can you share it with me?

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[davidstap]

Short update; this is a bit delayed (was busy with a lot of EMNLP reviews, and move to Germany for internship). I'll finish it next week.

[mjpost]

I had forgotten we'd started this. I've updated the description with a list of XML files that have video links. One idea would be to download them from the XML link so that we could set the name. The goal should be to change all the links to local storage. We could add also add an attribute to the <video> tag that retains the external link.

[davidstap]

Yes, I made a start but never got around to finishing it. I'll continue working on it after ingesting the ACL / EMNLP videos (almost done).

[mjpost]

Folks, now that this is nearing completion, there's a question of what to do about the videos on Vimeo.

The options are:

1. Keep them up, but delete the XML references to them
2. Keep them up, and redundantly retain the XML
3. Delete them, along with the XML references
4. Delete them, but keep the XML references

We can rule out (4) as silly. My inclination is (3), since we already have backups, maintaining them is work, and I'm not sure that Vimeo adds much in terms of value.

poke @mbollmann @akoehn

[akoehn]

Agree with 3 plus checking whether we can save money on that account (is a pro membership still needed?)

[mjpost]

Good thought, I bet we could ditch the pro membership. But I'll wait until they resolve our #3121...

[davidstap]

I found quite a few dead vimeo links (see #3125), similar to #3121. I can't find these videos anywhere else. Is there any way to restore them?

[davidstap]

Update: I found a total of 103 videos with broken vimeo links ("Unauthorized") in #3125

[mjpost]

can you post the list of them as a text file to this thread? I have an email in to Vimeo support and I'm waiting to hear back.

It's strange to me that we can't find these videos anywhere, but we don't get a message that they don't exist. I'm hoping this means that they're still there somehow.

[davidstap]

A list of broken links: broken_links.txt

Most of these have the "Unauthorized" issue, but others such as this one have a different error: "Sorry, we couldn't find that page".