分解Karthikeyan P的答案，使其可以用于更广泛的场景:

// Requires jQuery

function parseVimeoIdFromUrl(vimeoUrl) {
  var match = /vimeo.*\/(\d+)/i.exec(vimeoUrl);
  if (match)
    return match[1];

  return null;
};

function getVimeoThumbUrl(vimeoId) {
  var deferred = $.Deferred();
  $.ajax(
    '//www.vimeo.com/api/v2/video/' + vimeoId + '.json',
    {
        dataType: 'jsonp',
        cache: true
    }
  )
  .done(function (data) {
    // .thumbnail_small 100x75
    // .thumbnail_medium 200x150
    // 640 wide
        var img = data[0].thumbnail_large;
        deferred.resolve(img);  
    })
  .fail(function(a, b, c) {
    deferred.reject(a, b, c);
  });
  return deferred;
};

使用

从Vimeo视频URL获取Vimeo Id:

var vimeoId = parseVimeoIdFromUrl(vimeoUrl);

从vimeo Id获取一个vimeo缩略图URL:

getVimeoThumbUrl(vimeoIds[0])
.done(function(img) {
    $('div').append('<img src="' + img + '"/>');
});

https://jsfiddle.net/b9chris/nm8L8cc8/1/

使用Ruby，你可以做以下事情，比如:

url                      = "http://www.vimeo.com/7592893"
vimeo_video_id           = url.scan(/vimeo.com\/(\d+)\/?/).flatten.to_s               # extract the video id
vimeo_video_json_url     = "http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/%s.json" % vimeo_video_id   # API call

# Parse the JSON and extract the thumbnail_large url
thumbnail_image_location = JSON.parse(open(vimeo_video_json_url).read).first['thumbnail_large'] rescue nil

我写了一个函数在PHP让我这，我希望它对某人有用。缩略图的路径包含在视频页面的链接标记中。这似乎对我有用。

    $video_url = "http://vimeo.com/7811853"  
    $file = fopen($video_url, "r");
    $filedata = stream_get_contents($file);
    $html_content = strpos($filedata,"<link rel=\"videothumbnail");
    $link_string = substr($filedata, $html_content, 128);
    $video_id_array = explode("\"", $link_string);
    $thumbnail_url = $video_id_array[3];
    echo $thumbnail_url;

希望能对大家有所帮助。

Foggson

2020的解决方案:

我写了一个使用Vimeo Oembed API的PHP函数。

/**
 * Get Vimeo.com video thumbnail URL
 *
 * Set the referer parameter if your video is domain restricted.
 * 
 * @param  int    $videoid   Video id
 * @param  URL    $referer   Your website domain
 * @return bool/string       Thumbnail URL or false if can't access the video
 */
function get_vimeo_thumbnail_url( $videoid, $referer=null ){

    // if referer set, create context
    $ctx = null;
    if( isset($referer) ){
        $ctxa = array(
            'http' => array(
                'header' => array("Referer: $referer\r\n"),
                'request_fulluri' => true,
            ),
        );
        $ctx = stream_context_create($ctxa);
    }

    $resp = @file_get_contents("https://vimeo.com/api/oembed.json?url=https://vimeo.com/$videoid", False, $ctx);
    $resp = json_decode($resp, true);

return $resp["thumbnail_url"]??false;
}

用法:

echo get_vimeo_thumbnail_url("1084537");

对于像我这样最近正试图弄清楚这个问题的人来说，

https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/[video_id]_[dimension].webp适合我。

(其中尺寸= 200x150 | 640)

更新:此解决方案于2018年12月停止工作。

我也在找同样的事情，看起来这里的大多数答案都过时了，因为Vimeo API v2已弃用。

我的PHP 2¢:

$vidID     = 12345 // Vimeo Video ID
$tnLink = json_decode(file_get_contents('https://vimeo.com/api/oembed.json?url=https%3A//vimeo.com/' . $vidID))->thumbnail_url;

通过上面的链接，你将得到Vimeo默认缩略图的链接。

如果你想使用不同大小的图像，你可以添加如下内容:

$tnLink = substr($tnLink, strrpos($tnLink, '/') + 1);
$tnLink = substr($tnLink, 0, strrpos($tnLink, '_')); // You now have the thumbnail ID, which is different from Video ID

// And you can use it with link to one of the sizes of crunched by Vimeo thumbnail image, for example:
$tnLink = 'https://i.vimeocdn.com/filter/overlay?src0=https%3A%2F%2Fi.vimeocdn.com%2Fvideo%2F' . $tnLink    . '_1280x720.jpg&src1=https%3A%2F%2Ff.vimeocdn.com%2Fimages_v6%2Fshare%2Fplay_icon_overlay.png';