[VIMEO] HTTP ERROR 403 when downloading OnDemand VODs through VPS, but not desktop?

[tehgarra]

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Successful run W10

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE', 'https://vimeo.com/ondemand/xiaolinchronicles/', 'https://player.vimeo.com/video/222288672', '--ignore-config', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.03.08
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.17763
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2019-12-11-13f2b6d, ffprobe git-2019-12-11-13f2b6d
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vimeo:ondemand] Downloading login page
[vimeo:ondemand] Logging in
[vimeo:ondemand] xiaolinchronicles: Downloading webpage
[vimeo:ondemand] xiaolinchronicles: Extracting information
[vimeo:ondemand] xiaolinchronicles: Downloading JSON metadata
[vimeo:ondemand] xiaolinchronicles: Downloading JSON metadata
WARNING: [vimeo:ondemand] xiaolinchronicles: Failed to parse JSON Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
[vimeo:ondemand] xiaolinchronicles: Downloading akfire_interconnect_quic m3u8 information
[vimeo:ondemand] xiaolinchronicles: Downloading fastly_skyfire m3u8 information
[vimeo:ondemand] xiaolinchronicles: Downloading akfire_interconnect_quic MPD information
[vimeo:ondemand] xiaolinchronicles: Downloading fastly_skyfire MPD information
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://skyfire.vimeocdn.com/1589234654-0xaa40e715bf8249e3cf4ef75f9c6b66bf94fb4438/222288672/sep/video/776404625/playlist.m3u8'
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 221
[download] Destination: E01 - A NEW MONK ON THE BLOCK-222288672.fhls-fastly_skyfire-3738.mp4
[download]   3.7% of ~725.43MiB at  1.06MiB/s ETA 05:24
ERROR: Interrupted by user

Bad Run UBUNTU

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-u', u'PRIVATE', u'-p', u'PRIVATE', u'https://vimeo.com/ondemand/xiaolinchronicles/', u'https://player.vimeo.com/video/222288672', u'--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.05.08
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 (CPython) - Linux-4.4.0-174-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vimeo:ondemand] Downloading login page
ERROR: 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.
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 627, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2238, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 473, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 556, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

Am I doind something wrong here, or could it just be that vimeo is blocking access from vps services? I've tried with US and Amsterstdam vps locations (from the same site) with the same result

W10

wget --spider https://vimeo.com/ondemand/xiaolinchronicles/222288672?autoplay=1
Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists.
--2020-05-11 22:31:07--  https://vimeo.com/ondemand/xiaolinchronicles/222288672?autoplay=1
Resolving vimeo.com (vimeo.com)... 151.101.128.217, 151.101.0.217, 151.101.64.217, ...
Connecting to vimeo.com (vimeo.com)|151.101.128.217|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 189864 (185K) [text/html]

Ubuntu vps

wget --spider https://vimeo.com/ondemand/xiaolinchronicles/222288672?autoplay=1
Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists.
--2020-05-12 03:44:59--  https://vimeo.com/ondemand/xiaolinchronicles/222288672?autoplay=1w
Resolving vimeo.com (vimeo.com)... 151.101.128.217, 151.101.192.217, 151.101.0.217, ...
Connecting to vimeo.com (vimeo.com)|151.101.128.217|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
Remote file does not exist -- broken link!!!

[remitamine]

has nothing to do with youtube-dl.

[Sissuire]

@tehgarra So, have you ever solved this problem. I just encountered the same. It's ok in Windows but failed in Ubuntu.