Unable to download embedded Vimeo video on webpage.

[victorhooi]

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I'm attempting to download an embedded Vimeo video on a webpage. The webpage is behind a username/password.

I was able to use https://github.com/eMBee/vimeo-download to download the video successfully, by checking for the master.json file associatd with the video (using Chrome DevTools), and passing that to vimeo-download.py.

However, attempting to pass this master.json file to youtube-dl did not work - it simply saves the master.json file to disk.

Is there some way to have youtube-dl take a master.json file as input? Or some other way of having it parse a webpage behind a username/password?

[Hrxn]

Well, depends on the contents of master.json, I guess?

Can you post it?

[victorhooi]

Of course - this is the master.json that youtube-dl downloaded:

https://gist.github.com/victorhooi/fa8f19894371941d82b14004ad0e5385

[dstftw]

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[victorhooi]

Apologies if I missed something.

However, I suspect this is possibly a FR - which is what I was hoping to clarify with the youtube-dl team.

Was Vimeo embedded functionality ever working?

If it's the CLI output, I'm happy to attach that?

victorhooi@victorhooi-macbookpro ~> youtube-dl -v "https://skyfire.vimeocdn.com/1510209351-0xd04ae734a02180093c3ae293504c3082f8c5cb71/165035744/sep/video/524508004/master.json?base64_init=1"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://skyfire.vimeocdn.com/1510209351-0xd04ae734a02180093c3ae293504c3082f8c5cb71/165035744/sep/video/524508004/master.json?base64_init=1']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.11.06
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-16.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4, ffprobe 3.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] master: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] master: Downloading webpage
WARNING: URL could be a direct video link, returning it as such.
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://skyfire.vimeocdn.com/1510209351-0xd04ae734a02180093c3ae293504c3082f8c5cb71/165035744/sep/video/524508004/master.json?base64_init=1'
[download] Destination: master-master.json
[download] 100% of 62.53KiB in 00:00

Let me know if you need additional information.

[remitamine]

I'm attempting to download an embedded Vimeo video on a webpage. The webpage is behind a username/password.

i will refer to the URL of this webpage as the original URL.

you can use one of this options:

• use the original URL directly and pass cookies exported from the browser while you're logged in on the original URL to youtube-dl(should if they are directly using one of the supported embeds).
• use vimeo player url with the original URL as a referer(--referer URL).
• just replace json extension with mpd in the manifest.json URL.

[victorhooi]

I can confirm swapping the json extension for mpd works - out of curiosity - why is this?

And is this documented somewhere in the README/manpage?

[remitamine]

I can confirm swapping the json extension for mpd works - out of curiosity - why is this?

because youtube-dl does support mpd manifests(DASH formats).

And is this documented somewhere in the README/manpage?

no. there is no need to document those hacks, it's not the preferred way for using youtube-dl.

[Hrxn]

BTW, I think this issue should be set to open again then..
The initial problem

I'm attempting to download an embedded Vimeo video on a webpage. The webpage is behind a username/password.

is not really addressed, yet. Or not?

[remitamine]

BTW, I think this issue should be set to open again then..

i think that the issue will need to be opened if:
1- the first method i have described does not work(using the cookies).
2- @victorhooi needs to provide the requested information(a verbose log using cookies on the original URL).
then the issue would be opened and even if there where someone interested to work on it or even there is a PR to solve the problem, it mostly never resolved upstream because there is no one actually willing to provide credentials to one of the maintainers to test the code or work on the issue before including it in the master branch: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aaccount-needed.

[HighTowerBK]

Hello,

Im not sure I am at the right place but I've been trying to use viemo-download.py and I always the message:

raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

maybe @victorhooi could help me out?

THANKS a lot!

[luvarpt]

Try to change suffix of url master.json?base64_init=1 into master.mpd. Have a look at akamai documentation.