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08-21-2019
10:52 AM
Validating Vimeo Feed for Search
Roku's information about setting up a Channel for Search contains this statement:
We retrieve our video feed from Vimeo, using their Showcase feature and Roku actually says Vimeo is one of the resources that can be used to build a Roku channel. But, the Vimeo feed is formatted as a JSON string (that's controlled by Vimeo and there appears to be no ability to choose an XML formatted feed).
However, the feed_validator that Roku uses requires a URL pointing to an XML-formatted feed (see statement above and follow the link to the Roku feed_validator).
How is one supposed to validate a Vimeo-based channel for Search given this situation?
- Submit an up-to-date XML feed of your available content to Roku using the correct XML schema. Here is the URL: https://developer.roku.com/search/feed_validator[/url:13v7aoeb]. We do not accept feeds which do not...
We retrieve our video feed from Vimeo, using their Showcase feature and Roku actually says Vimeo is one of the resources that can be used to build a Roku channel. But, the Vimeo feed is formatted as a JSON string (that's controlled by Vimeo and there appears to be no ability to choose an XML formatted feed).
However, the feed_validator that Roku uses requires a URL pointing to an XML-formatted feed (see statement above and follow the link to the Roku feed_validator).
How is one supposed to validate a Vimeo-based channel for Search given this situation?