Unable to download vimeo video

[Kamiware]

The script fails to lookup the title and fails the download on that. Even when I use thee -i option:

$ youtube-dl -U
Updating to latest stable version...
Updated to version 2012.01.08b
$ youtube-dl -t http://vimeo.com/28055108
[vimeo] 28055108: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 28055108: Extracting information
ERROR: unable to extract video title
$ youtube-dl -i http://vimeo.com/28055108
[vimeo] 28055108: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 28055108: Extracting information
ERROR: unable to extract video title

[phihag]

Vimeo blocks the request (via mogaloop):

The creator of this video has not given you permission to embed it on this domain

We should scrape the webpage instead. I'll look into it, but that may take some time as I'm currently busy writing my Master's thesis. Expect updates early April. Of course, you're free to contribute patches.

[FiloSottile]

Working on it, but is really difficult.
All the info is readily available here http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/28055108.xml
Anyway we will have to emulate the Vimeo JS behavior to get to the video.

... Minified JS.

[FiloSottile]

Fixed it by switching to a bit of scraping and some info from the JSON config on the page.
Changes made in FiloSottile/youtube-dl@2934c2c, see pull request #301

[phihag]

Merged.