Matthew Buchanan (Home)

Vimeo offers plenty of customisation options when embedding its player, but Tumblr’s automated code generator doesn’t respect these, overwriting them with its own defaults. To fix this, I wrote a quick jQuery function to rewrite Tumblr’s default options string for all Vimeo embeds on the current page (get the ready-to-install version):

$("object[data^='http://vimeo.com']").each(function() {
    var parent = $(this).parent();
    var vimeoCode = parent.html();
    var params = "";
    if (vimeoCode.toLowerCase().indexOf("<param") == -1) {
        $("param", this).each(function() {
            params += $(this).get(0).outerHTML;
        });
    }
    var oldOpts = /show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF/g;
    var newOpts = "show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=55CC55";
    vimeoCode = vimeoCode.replace(oldOpts, newOpts);
    if (params != "") {
        params = params.replace(oldOpts, newOpts);
        vimeoCode = vimeoCode.replace(/<embed/i, params + "<embed");
    }
    parent.html(vimeoCode);
});

Tweak the newOpts string to whatever you prefer — it will work for all embeds except those that have had their options locked by their respective owners. You can see it in action here.

Update: IE mangles the <object> tag when returning it as an HTML string. I’ve updated the code to make it work as intended.