Unable to download Vimeo videos due to SSL error

[videoeditorguy]

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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 ```):

~ $ youtube-dl -v https://vimeo.com/117191225
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://vimeo.com/117191225']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.02.18
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 (CPython) - Darwin-16.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1.1, ffprobe 4.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vimeo] 117191225: 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 605, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2225, 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 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 1140, 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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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I am on macOS 10.12.6 and use homebrew to keep youtube-dl up to date. I am not a programmer myself and my knowledge of the Terminal and scripting is rather limited. I have not changed my system in any way in the last few months (no system updates, etc.) and in the Terminal I have only ever used homebrew to install youtube-dl and ffmpeg, but not changed any system components. I have used youtube-dl successfully for years but lately I get the above error when trying to download videos from Vimeo.

I get the same error on another Mac of mine.

[dstftw]

Most likely OpenSSL is outdated in your setup.