Attempting to download rented Vimeo video | ERROR: Cannot download embed-only video without embedding URL. Please call youtube-dl with the URL of the page that embeds this video.

[tylerforesthauser]

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youtube-dl -u xxx@xxx.xxx --referer https://vimeo.com/ondemand/dekalbelementary/253137925 https://player.vimeo.com/video/253137925 -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-u', u'PRIVATE', u'--referer', u'https://vimeo.com/ondemand/dekalbelementary/253137925', u'https://player.vimeo.com/video/253137925', u'-v']
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[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.02.08
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 (CPython) - Darwin-17.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.1, ffprobe 3.4.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vimeo] Logging in
[vimeo] 253137925: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Cannot download embed-only video without embedding URL. Please call youtube-dl with the URL of the page that embeds this video.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py", line 470, in _real_extract
    webpage, urlh = self._download_webpage_handle(request, video_id)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 539, in _download_webpage_handle
    urlh = self._request_webpage(url_or_request, video_id, note, errnote, fatal, data=data, headers=headers, query=query)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 528, in _request_webpage
    raise ExtractorError(errmsg, sys.exc_info()[2], cause=err)
ExtractorError: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 785, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 440, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py", line 485, in _real_extract
    expected=True)
ExtractorError: Cannot download embed-only video without embedding URL. Please call youtube-dl with the URL of the page that embeds this video.
<end of log>

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Attempting to download rented Vimeo video

I just rented a video on Vimeo's website so there is no referrer I'm aware of. But I've tried using every variation I can think of...

youtube-dl -u xxx@xxxx.xxx --referer https://vimeo.com/ondemand/dekalbelementary/253137925 https://player.vimeo.com/video/253137925

youtube-dl -u xxx@xxxx.xxx --referer https://vimeo.com/253137925 https://player.vimeo.com/video/253137925

youtube-dl -u xxx@xxxx.xxx --referer https://vimeo.com/ondemand/dekalbelementary/253137925 https://vimeo.com/ondemand/dekalbelementary/253137925

youtube-dl -u xxx@xxxx.xxx https://vimeo.com/ondemand/dekalbelementary/253137925

All of them give me the following error:

ERROR: Cannot download embed-only video without embedding URL. Please call youtube-dl with the URL of the page that embeds this video.

If I don't have a referrer, what do I do?

[dstftw]

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[tylerforesthauser]

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[tylerforesthauser]

@dstftw My rental is about to expire in ~4 hours. No expectations or anything, I appreciate whatever help you're able to provide. Should I rent it again or maybe just accept defeat? Thank you very much for your time.

[dstftw]

For now you can download it with https://fpdl.vimeocdn.com/vimeo-prod-skyfire-std-us/01/627/10/253137925/922129549.mp4?token=1518372855-0x202dd24e85b4b7b0d9d6e3b51d2c7df26d1b4a73 or --hls-prefer-native https://skyfire.vimeocdn.com/1518372607-0x67bc4d2e2d55050e545244d6b1c42b3a752984b6/253137925/video/922129565,922129550,922129549,922129548/master.m3u8

[tylerforesthauser]

Whoa, amazing! Thank you so much! Are you able to shed some light on 1) how you got those urls and/or 2) why the standard url doesn't work?

[9KuuCqmtebjTD]

Also interested in how this works.

[yuliskov]

@9KuuCqmtebjTD, here the steps

• Open Chrome and press F12 key. DevTools should appear.
• Select Network panel inside DevTools.
• Reload page with F5 key. Now you should see network requests performed.
• Filter out the network requests by type config inside search filed.
• Open content of the selected request (Open new tab)
• Search here m3u8 substring.
• These should be the link what you have wanted.