Cannot download vimeo video

[Tjorriemorrie]

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$  pipenv run youtube-dl -v https://www.homegrownfoodsummit.com/john-livingston-chicken-mini-business/
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.homegrownfoodsummit.com/john-livingston-chicken-mini-business/']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.03.18
[debug] Python version 3.6.0 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.15063-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.4, ffprobe N-87353-g183fd30
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] john-livingston-chicken-mini-business: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] john-livingston-chicken-mini-business: Downloading webpage
[generic] john-livingston-chicken-mini-business: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.homegrownfoodsummit.com/john-livingston-chicken-mini-business/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\cygwin64\home\jaco.jansen\.virtualenvs\youtube-cyogsqqv\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 794, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "c:\cygwin64\home\jaco.jansen\.virtualenvs\youtube-cyogsqqv\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 529, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "c:\cygwin64\home\jaco.jansen\.virtualenvs\youtube-cyogsqqv\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 3320, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.homegrownfoodsummit.com/john-livingston-chicken-mini-business/

it seems that url should be easily supported

[Hrxn]

How so? That's not a Vimeo link?

[ealgase]

@Hrxn It's a Vimeo embed that isn't properly extracted.

[Hrxn]

Yeah, but how is youtube-dl supposed to know?
Isn't there some Vimeo button in the video corner? Or a share link, or the embed link functionality? Might get the Vimeo link from there.

[Tjorriemorrie]

A lot of sites put vimeo videos without download links embedded on their webpages - it is also private and not available on vimeo. They do this so that users purchase the videos or products, etc. This used to work, but has been breaking now - vimeo must have changed something. Let me know if the page has been removed, I'll probably find others.

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On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 11:32 PM HRXN ***@***.***> wrote: Yeah, but how is youtube-dl supposed to know? Isn't there some Vimeo button in the video corner? Or a share link, or the embed link functionality? Might get the Vimeo link from there. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#20428 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABDFVX5CIxq1I4EvwWOYqXNOO-Nbe6cUks5vY3v5gaJpZM4cATb1> .

[ealgase]

Yeah, but how is youtube-dl supposed to know?
Isn't there some Vimeo button in the video corner? Or a share link, or the embed link functionality? Might get the Vimeo link from there.

youtube-dl is supposed to find Vimeo embeds and download them. In this case, finding the embed fails. As @Tjorriemorrie said, you can't view it directly on Vimeo.