I have tried two different approach to do vimeo advanced api authentication (which include vimeo search api authentication in this case) and I were not successful using any of them. Please find both the approaches:-

1st Approach:

#!perl                                                                
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use strict;
use warnings;

use Digest::HMAC_SHA1;
use Data::Dump qw /dump/;
use URI::Escape;
use Net::OAuth;
use MIME::Base64;
use LWP::UserAgent;

# Authorize a user                                                    
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my $consumer_key = "CONSUMERKEY";
my $secret       = "SECRET";
my $method       = "vimeo.videos.search" ;
my $oauth_nonce  = int( rand( 2**32 ) ) ;
my $timestamp    = time ;
my $query        = "happy" ;
my $url          = "http://vimeo.com/api/rest/v2/" ;

my $str =   "method=$method&oauth_consumer_key=$consumer_key&oauth_non
+ce=$oauth_nonce&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_timestamp=$tim
+estamp&oauth_version=1.0&query=$query";

$str = uri_escape( $str) ;
$url = uri_escape( $url) ;

my $secret_key = $secret . '&';
my $base_str   = "GET" . "&" . $url . "&" . $str ;

my $hmac = Digest::HMAC_SHA1->new( $secret_key ) ;
$hmac->add($base_str) ;

my $oauth_signature = $hmac->b64digest ;
$oauth_signature    = encode_base64($oauth_signature );
chomp $oauth_signature;
$oauth_signature    =  uri_escape( $oauth_signature );

my $v_search_url = "http://vimeo.com/api/rest/v2? method=$method&oauth
+_consumer_key=$key&oauth_nonce=$oauth_nonce&oauth_signature_method=HM
+AC-SHA1&oauth_timestamp=$timestamp&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_signature=
+$oauth_signature&query=$query" ;

my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $res     = $browser->get( $v_search_url );
print $res->content;

The response content throws following error:-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rsp generated_in="0.0024" stat="fail">
    <err code="401" expl="The consumer key passed was not valid." msg=
+"Invalid consumer key"/>
</rsp>
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The consumer key used above is a valid one (Not shared though on top). On hitting the above search url directly on mozilla browser throws this error: "The oauth_signature passed was not valid." Please let me know where exactly the code is having error. I have followed the oauth spec provided at: http://vimeo.com/api/docs/oauth

2nd Approach:

#!perl                                                                
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use strict;
use warnings;

use Digest::HMAC_SHA1;
use Data::Dump qw /dump/;
use URI::Escape;
use Net::OAuth;
use Net::OAuth::RequestTokenRequest;
use MIME::Base64;
use LWP::UserAgent;

# Authorize a user                                                    
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my $consumer_key = "586a3643bbc31e113205ab62afd86689";
my $secret       = "1ff16d3829274918";
my $method       = "vimeo.videos.search" ;
my $oauth_nonce  = int( rand( 2**32 ) ) ;
my $timestamp    = time ;
my $query        = "happy" ;
my $url          = "http://vimeo.com/oauth/request_token";

my $request = Net::OAuth::RequestTokenRequest->new(
        consumer_key     => $consumer_key,
        consumer_secret  => $secret,
        request_url      => $url,
        request_method   => 'GET',
        signature_method => 'HMAC-SHA1',
        timestamp        => $timestamp,
        nonce            => $oauth_nonce,
    );

die "COULDN'T GET REQUEST SIGN! Check parameters.\n" unless $request->
+sign;
die "COULDN'T VERIFY! Check OAuth parameters.\n" unless $request->veri
+fy;

my $browser   = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $post_body = $request->to_post_body;
$post_body    = "oauth_callback=oob&" . $post_body;
my $post_url  = $url . '/?' . $post_body;

my $res       = $browser->get( $post_url );

die $res->status_line unless ($res->is_success);

print $res->content;
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This method is also failing by throwing above error stating "The consumer key passed was not valid.".

As using Net::Oauth - its giving error in the first step itself, I cannot proceed further. Any inputs will be sincerely appreciated.