Vimeo on demand extraction broken

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» youtube-dl --verbose  --username 'xyz@xyz.com' --password 'abc123' https://vimeo.com/watchlater
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'--username', u'PRIVATE', u'--password', u'PRIVATE', u'https://vimeo.com/watchlater']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.09.11.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Darwin-15.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.1.3, ffprobe 3.1.3, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vimeo:watchlater] Logging in
[vimeo:watchlater] watchlater: Downloading page 1
[download] Downloading playlist: Watch Later
[vimeo:watchlater] playlist Watch Later: Downloading 1 videos
[download] Downloading video 1 of 1
[vimeo] Logging in
[vimeo] 126682985: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 126682985: Extracting information
ERROR: Unable to extract info section (caused by RegexNotFoundError(u'Unable to extract \x1b[0;34minfo section\x1b[0m; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.',)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/hakan/python/envs/yt-dl-env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py", line 462, in _real_extract
    flags=re.DOTALL)
  File "/Users/hakan/python/envs/yt-dl-env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 650, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract info section; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/hakan/python/envs/yt-dl-env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 691, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/Users/hakan/python/envs/yt-dl-env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 347, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/Users/hakan/python/envs/yt-dl-env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py", line 476, in _real_extract
    cause=e)
ExtractorError: Unable to extract info section (caused by RegexNotFoundError(u'Unable to extract \x1b[0;34minfo section\x1b[0m; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.',)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

It appears Vimeo extraction is broken. For downloading on demand videos, no URLs appears to work: /watchlater, /ondemand/purchases, /ondemand/{videoid}. This affects current version 2016.09.11.1 as well as the previous I tested with, 2016.09.08. I have tested on Mac OSX with the Homebrew distribution of youtube-dl, from a Mac OSX virtualenv with youtube-dl installed using pip, and finally in a Linux virtualenv - result is the same in all three cases.

[dstftw]

If work on your issue requires an account credentials please provide them

[dstftw]

It may possibly work after d002e91.

[mateusz-plociennik]

I'm having the same issue with: $ youtube-dl -u '***@gmail.com' -p '***' -F 'https://vimeo.com/ondemand/luter/280331656' --verbose --dump-pages (grab my login details, the stream is available until Sep 27, 2018)
Logs

It seems that after logging in we are redirected to https://vimeo.com/home instead of the video page, that's why youtube-dl fails.

[rfourquet]

I'm getting a similar error ("Unable to extract info section") with the following site, which doesn't require any login/account: https://www.eckharttollekurs.net/einfuehrungskurs-lektion-3/

[lenke182]

Problem is still there. For example output of $ youtube-dl -v https://www.claus-von-wagner.de/tv/anstalt/20140204-revolution

[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-f', 'bestvideo+bestaudio/best', '--embed-thumbnail', '-i', 'https://www.claus-von-wagner.de/tv/anstalt/20140204-revolution', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.09.10
[debug] Python version 3.6.7 (CPython) - Linux-4.18.0-17-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.10-cosmic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0.2-2, ffprobe 4.0.2-2, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 20140204-revolution: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 20140204-revolution: Downloading webpage
[generic] 20140204-revolution: Extracting information
[download] Downloading playlist: video
[generic] playlist video: Collected 1 video ids (downloading 1 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 1
[vimeo] 292929605: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 292929605: Extracting information
ERROR: Unable to extract info section (caused by RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract \x1b[0;34minfo section\x1b[0m; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.',)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py", line 528, in _real_extract
    'vimeo clip page config')
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 972, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract vimeo clip page config; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py", line 547, in _real_extract
    flags=re.DOTALL)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 972, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract info section; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py", line 528, in _real_extract
    'vimeo clip page config')
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 972, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract vimeo clip page config; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py", line 547, in _real_extract
    flags=re.DOTALL)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 972, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract info section; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 502, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py", line 561, in _real_extract
    cause=e)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Unable to extract info section (caused by RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract \x1b[0;34minfo section\x1b[0m; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.',)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
[download] Finished downloading playlist: video

[remitamine]

[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.09.10

@Mineroboter you're using an outdated version.

[lenke182]

@remitamine Oh, sorry, I didn't notice. Thanks.