Certain vimeo channels fail with a "404 error"

[rupertbaxter2]

Ceratin vimeo channel downloads fail with a "404 error", even though the web page exists. For example, http://vimeo.com/channels/538004

Here is the verbose output:

shell:test $ ./youtube-dl --verbose http://vimeo.com/channels/538004
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://vimeo.com/channels/538004']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'ISO-8859-1', fs 'ISO-8859-1', out 'ISO-8859-1', pref: 'ISO-8859-1'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.03.11
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.2.0-60-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-12.04-precise
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vimeo] 538004: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found; 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.
File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 192, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1173, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 406, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 519, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 438, in error
result = self._call_chain(_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 378, in _call_chain
result = func(_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 625, in http_error_302
return self.parent.open(new, timeout=req.timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 406, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 519, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 444, in error
return self._call_chain(_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 378, in _call_chain
result = func(_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 527, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

[jaimeMF]

Fixed, thanks for the report!
It will work in the next version.

[phihag]

This fix has been incorporated into youtube-dl 2014.03.12. Type ./youtube-dl -U to update.