Vimeo download: urlopen error [SSL: TLSV1_ALERT_PROTOCOL_VERSION]

[mperovic]

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$ youtube-dl --verbose https://player.vimeo.com/external/214318003.m3u8?s=b6e5a8b0912bd3fd485351e7c04a51d22e75d8ba&oauth2_token_id=897711146
[1] 6631
MacBook-Pro-5:Practical Instruments myAccount$ [debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'https://player.vimeo.com/external/214318003.m3u8?s=b6e5a8b0912bd3fd485351e7c04a51d22e75d8ba']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.05.01
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-16.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.2, ffprobe 3.2.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 214318003: Requesting header
WARNING: Could not send HEAD request to https://player.vimeo.com/external/214318003.m3u8?s=b6e5a8b0912bd3fd485351e7c04a51d22e75d8ba: <urlopen error [SSL: TLSV1_ALERT_PROTOCOL_VERSION] tlsv1 alert protocol version (_ssl.c:590)>
[generic] 214318003: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [SSL: TLSV1_ALERT_PROTOCOL_VERSION] tlsv1 alert protocol version (_ssl.c:590)> (caused by URLError(SSLError(1, u'[SSL: TLSV1_ALERT_PROTOCOL_VERSION] tlsv1 alert protocol version (_ssl.c:590)'),))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 498, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2106, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 469, in error
    result = self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 656, in http_error_302
    return self.parent.open(new, timeout=req.timeout)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 431, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 449, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1089, in https_open
    req, **kwargs)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1197, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)

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• Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
• Single video: https://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc
• Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lCao7KL_QFVb7Iudeipvc2BCavECqzc

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Tried to reinstall openssl without result:
brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies openssl
rm -rf /usr/local/etc/openssl
brew install openssl

--referer switch doesn't work also
youtube-dl --verbose https://player.vimeo.com/external/214318003.m3u8?s=b6e5a8b0912bd3fd485351e7c04a51d22e75d8ba&oauth2_token_id=897711146 --referer https://videos.raywenderlich.com/courses/74-practical-instruments/lessons/1

[yan12125]

Can't reproduce on latest Sierra:

$ youtube-dl -v "https://player.vimeo.com/external/214318003.m3u8?s=b6e5a8b0912bd3fd485351e7c04a51d22e75d8ba&oauth2_token_id=897711146"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://player.vimeo.com/external/214318003.m3u8?s=b6e5a8b0912bd3fd485351e7c04a51d22e75d8ba&oauth2_token_id=897711146']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.05.01
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-16.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3, ffprobe 3.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 214318003: Requesting header
[redirect] Following redirect to https://skyfire.vimeocdn.com/1493854019-0xecb80922d07a68fe68654a885148c456915b698b/214318003/video/738297538,738297546,738297539,738297578/subtitles/4937453-English-en/master.m3u8?absolute=1
[generic] master: Requesting header
WARNING: Could not send HEAD request to https://skyfire.vimeocdn.com/1493854019-0xecb80922d07a68fe68654a885148c456915b698b/214318003/video/738297538,738297546,738297539,738297578/subtitles/4937453-English-en/master.m3u8?absolute=1: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
[generic] master: Downloading webpage
[generic] master: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://skyfire.vimeocdn.com/1493854022-0xae70e31fe408411701106b2fde094876c27536ac/214318003/video/738297578/playlist.m3u8'
[download] Destination: master-master.mp4
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -headers 'Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20150101 Firefox/47.0 (Chrome)
' -i https://skyfire.vimeocdn.com/1493854022-0xae70e31fe408411701106b2fde094876c27536ac/214318003/video/738297578/playlist.m3u8 -c copy -f mp4 file:master-master.mp4.part
ffmpeg version 3.3 Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers
  built with Apple LLVM version 8.1.0 (clang-802.0.41)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/3.3 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-avresample --cc=clang --host-cflags= --host-ldflags= --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-opencl --disable-lzma --enable-vda
  libavutil      55. 58.100 / 55. 58.100
  libavcodec     57. 89.100 / 57. 89.100
  libavformat    57. 71.100 / 57. 71.100
  libavdevice    57.  6.100 / 57.  6.100
  libavfilter     6. 82.100 /  6. 82.100
  libavresample   3.  5.  0 /  3.  5.  0
  libswscale      4.  6.100 /  4.  6.100
  libswresample   2.  7.100 /  2.  7.100
  libpostproc    54.  5.100 / 54.  5.100
Input #0, hls,applehttp, from 'https://skyfire.vimeocdn.com/1493854022-0xae70e31fe408411701106b2fde094876c27536ac/214318003/video/738297578/playlist.m3u8':
  Duration: 00:04:15.47, start: 0.700000, bitrate: 0 kb/s
  Program 0
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 0
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High) ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 30 fps, 30 tbr, 90k tbn, 60 tbc
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 0
    Stream #0:1: Audio: aac (LC) ([15][0][0][0] / 0x000F), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 0
Output #0, mp4, to 'file:master-master.mp4.part':
  Metadata:
    encoder         : Lavf57.71.100
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High) ([33][0][0][0] / 0x0021), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=2-31, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 90k tbn, 90k tbc
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 0
    Stream #0:1: Audio: aac (LC) ([64][0][0][0] / 0x0040), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 0
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (copy)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
^Cframe=  539 fps=183 q=-1.0 Lsize=    2550kB time=00:00:17.98 bitrate=1161.7kbits/s speed=6.12x
video:2013kB audio:523kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:1kB muxing overhead: 0.584819%
Exiting normally, received signal 2.

ERROR: Interrupted by user

I guess there are connection issues between your machine and the vimeo server. Can you open this URL in browsers? And could you run

curl -v https://player.vimeo.com/external/214318003.m3u8?s=b6e5a8b0912bd3fd485351e7c04a51d22e75d8ba&oauth2_token_id=897711146

and see what's the output?

[mperovic]

I can open url and I see the video. Yesterday I was able to watch this video in my browser, too.

Now I can download it, too. It's strange.

Thanks for your time.

[Fazel94]

The same error happens to me in the middle of the download, it actually starts downloading but after some time it gives the error when I retry it start downloading some more then gives this error again.
I use Linux

→ youtube-dl --version
2020.09.20

Installed using conda install -c conda-forge youtube-dl