Not Vimeo.com coming out of ID soon?

Question

I recently noticed that the Vimeo identifier is a string of 8 integers. This means that, at best, a circuit can contain 10 8 videos or 100 million videos. Of course, this is a huge amount, but still very very finite. Won't they come out of space soon? Should I plan my applications when they add more integers or if they change to letters and integers or something else? Or am I missing something?

Answer 1

There is a video with less than 8 digits , so it looks like they just increment the number by 1 for each video. You must, in other words, definitely plan for the 9th digit.

Personally, I would save the entire URL for the video as a string that will allow you to handle any future video numbering scheme that they can come up with. Considering that they are always numeric forever, probably not a good idea, everyone seems to be making a vain URL now :)

Answer 2

No, they will not. They can simply add more numbers if necessary.

Also note that Vimeo URIs are largely consistent with the W3C guidelines for URIs, as they do not reveal the internal implementation details, so you cannot say for sure that the video identifiers are indeed 8-digit integer strings.

Answer 3

The official answer from Vimeo is that they have no plans to change the identity that currently exists:

Will Vimeo's video id always be a number?

In addition, this information may be useful for establishing the numerical storage of vimeo identifiers:

How many digits are in the video ID numbers?