[Laracasts.com] Can't download embedded Vimeo

[pihug12]

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Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

λ python C:\Users\User\Downloads\youtube-dl -v https://laracasts.com/series/visual-studio-code-for-php-developers/episodes/2
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'--no-mtime', u'--no-cache-dir']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://laracasts.com/series/visual-studio-code-for-php-developers/episodes/2']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.03.03
[debug] Python version 2.7.13 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.4, ffprobe 3.2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 2: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 2: Downloading webpage
[generic] 2: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://laracasts.com/series/visual-studio-code-for-php-developers/episodes/2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\User\Downloads\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 2221, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "C:\Users\User\Downloads\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\compat.py", line 2542, in compat_etree_fromstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
  File "C:\Users\User\Downloads\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\compat.py", line 2531, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "D:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1653, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "D:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1517, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: mismatched tag: line 38, column 2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\User\Downloads\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 785, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "C:\Users\User\Downloads\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 440, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "C:\Users\User\Downloads\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 3145, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://laracasts.com/series/visual-studio-code-for-php-developers/episodes/2

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: https://laracasts.com/series/visual-studio-code-for-php-developers/episodes/2

Note that youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to copyright infringement. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Laracasts.com uses embedded Vimeo video. youtube-dl doesn't seem to be able to extract it parsing the HTML document.

[kayb94]

I guess, the vimeo-id in line 161 of the webpage might help. But I did not come any further.

[pirate486743186]

vimeo-id is for the iframe
with the referrer you can download the iframe

wget --referer "https://laracasts.com" "https://player.vimeo.com/video/243120448"

in the iframe "var config" holds the video links