Reply To: Fill field with remote data?

• sporklab

• January 30, 2020 at 10:59 am

Oh, also just going to post my code in case it’s helpful or if someone wants to yell at me for being wrong:

	// Fetch vimeo thumbnail on save - takes video ID as input
	function rf_acf_update_vimeo_thumb( $value, $post_id, $field ) {
		// only set a new value if the field is empty
		if ( $value == '') {
			// get video here
			$vimeo_video_id = get_field('vimeo_video_id');
			// fetch thumb url(s)
			$vimeo_meta = file_get_contents("https://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/$vimeo_video_id.json");
			$vimeo_meta = json_decode($vimeo_meta);
			$vimeo_thumb = $vimeo_meta[0]->thumbnail_large;
			// set value
			$value = $vimeo_thumb;
			return $value;
		} else {
			return $value;
		}
	}
	
	add_filter('acf/update_value/name=thumbnail_url', 'rf_acf_update_vimeo_thumb', 10, 3);