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

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;
    }

如果您不需要自动解决方案，您可以通过在这里输入vimeo ID: http://video.depone.eu/来找到缩略图URL

我创建了一个code depen来为您获取图像。

https://codepen.io/isramv/pen/gOpabXg

HTML

<input type="text" id="vimeoid" placeholder="257314493" value="257314493">
<button id="getVideo">Get Video</button>
<div id="output"></div>

JavaScript:

const videoIdInput = document.getElementById('vimeoid');
const getVideo = document.getElementById('getVideo');
const output = document.getElementById('output');

function getVideoThumbnails(videoid) {
  fetch(`https://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/${videoid}.json`)
  .then(response => {
    return response.text();
  })
  .then(data => {
    const { thumbnail_large, thumbnail_medium, thumbnail_small } = JSON.parse(data)[0];
    const small = `<img src="${thumbnail_small}"/>`;
    const medium = `<img src="${thumbnail_medium}"/>`;
    const large = `<img src="${thumbnail_large}"/>`;
    output.innerHTML = small + medium + large;
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.log(error);
  });
}

getVideo.addEventListener('click', e => {
  if (!isNaN(videoIdInput.value)) {
    getVideoThumbnails(videoIdInput.value);
  }
});

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';

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/