使用jQuery jsonp请求:

<script type="text/javascript">
    $.ajax({
        type:'GET',
        url: 'http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/' + video_id + '.json',
        jsonp: 'callback',
        dataType: 'jsonp',
        success: function(data){
            var thumbnail_src = data[0].thumbnail_large;
            $('#thumb_wrapper').append('<img src="' + thumbnail_src + '"/>');
        }
    });
</script>

<div id="thumb_wrapper"></div>

如果你想通过纯js/jquery没有api使用缩略图，你可以使用这个工具从视频中捕获一帧，瞧!插入url拇指在任何你喜欢的来源。

这是一支码笔:

http://codepen.io/alphalink/pen/epwZpJ

<img src="https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/531141496_640.jpg"` alt="" />

以下是获取缩略图的网站:

http://video.depone.eu/

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

function getVimeoInfo($link)
 {
    if (preg_match('~^http://(?:www\.)?vimeo\.com/(?:clip:)?(\d+)~', $link, $match)) 
    {
        $id = $match[1];
    }
    else
    {
        $id = substr($link,10,strlen($link));
    }

    if (!function_exists('curl_init')) die('CURL is not installed!');
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/$id.php");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
    $output = unserialize(curl_exec($ch));
    $output = $output[0];
    curl_close($ch);
    return $output;
}`

//在下面的函数传递缩略图url。

function save_image_local($thumbnail_url)
    {

         //for save image at local server
         $filename = time().'_hbk.jpg';
         $fullpath = '../../app/webroot/img/videos/image/'.$filename;

         file_put_contents ($fullpath,file_get_contents($thumbnail_url));

        return $filename;
    }

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/

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';