Vimeo - PW Protected

[khanrahan]

Hey there,

Downloading a PW protected clip from Vimeo seems to be broken. I tried with and without the s in https. Thanks

[debug] System config: ['-o', '%(title)s.%(ext)s', '--max-quality']
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--video-password', '<PRIVATE>', '--verbose', 'https://vimeo.com/40695229']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.11.02
[debug] Python version 2.7.2 - Darwin-12.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: The url doesn't specify the protocol, trying with http
[redirect] Following redirect to http://localhost/
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] : Downloading webpage
[generic] : Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://localhost/; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 342, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 122, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 196, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError(u'Unsupported URL: %s' % url)
ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: http://localhost/; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.

[khanrahan]

I tried the pw protected test video in vimeo.py and that failed as well, with the same error.

[jaimeMF]

The test video works fine, the problem is that the --max-quality option requires a parameter( see the manual), which makes the argument parser think that the password is a video url. If you want to download the best quality possible you can drop the option, it's the default behaviour.
I'm closing the issue, if that doesn't solve the problem, please comment here and we will reopen it.

[phihag]

To clarify, the problem is in /etc/youtube-dl.conf. Remove the --max-quality parameter from there.

[khanrahan]

ohhhhhhhh, thanks.