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How to search your Library

To search your own Library, use the search bar on the top left of the page. If the player icon is selected to the right of the search bar, the results will only contain your content. You can search for video titles, folder names, transcripts, and more.

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View and filter all results

If you press the Enter key or select View on Library search page… in the search dropdown, you will be taken to our Video Library search results page. To the right, you will find the option to sort the results by overall relevance, alphabetically, date modified, date added, or duration.

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You can filter your content by: 

  • Type: Filter by content type, i.e. videos or folders
  • Appears in: Filter by where the search word appears, i.e. titles, audio transcript (Enterprise only), description, tags, chapter, or image text
  • Location: Select which folder the content lives in
  • Date modified: Choose an exact date or date range 
  • Privacy: Select privacy setting(s) of the item
  • Created by: Select user(s) who created the item

How to switch between searching your Library and all of Vimeo

If you are trying to search for public Vimeo content outside of your account, be sure to select Search all of Vimeo for… in the results dropdown to be brought to our public search results page. Alternatively, visit Search on Vimeo. 

 See About the search results page for more information on searching all of Vimeo. 

💡Tip: When you switch between searching your Library and all of Vimeo, your selection will persist the next time you use the search bar. 

How to search by folder

Select the search bar and then the Folders button to limit your search to folder names.
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You will see the type: Folders tag in the search bar. Type your search after the tag to see your results.

How to search your Library for transcript mentions

You can search your Library to find videos that mention your search term. Here's how:

  1. Go to your Library and begin typing to populate the results dropdown. 
  2. You can search for keywords or phrases within your video transcripts using the search bar.
  3. Results from within a transcript will be marked with a timestamp indicating when the term was mentioned.
  4. Select "See all Library results" to see all results that contain the search term. If a transcript contains the search term more than once, this will be reflected in the dropdown with the number of results within the video. 
  5. Select the dropdown menu under a single video result to see all the timestamps in that video containing the search term.
  6. Once you select a result you will be redirected to the viewing page for that video with playback starting at the relevant timestamp.

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