Crash when downloading Vimeo with --get-format

[alexstuckey]

When I try to download a Vimeo video with the --get-format option it crashes. I don't know if youtube-dl is meant to be able to do this with a Vimeo video but it should at least quit gracefully with out a traceback.

alex@aserver:~/youtube$ youtube-dl --get-format https://vimeo.com/43796489
(531, 96)
(534, 88)
(534, 176)
(534, 264)
(534, 352)
(534, 440)
(534, 528)
(534, 616)
(534, 704)
(534, 792)
(534, 880)
(534, 968)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/runpy.py", line 122, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/runpy.py", line 34, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/home/alex/bin/youtube-dl/__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "/home/alex/bin/youtube-dl/__init__.py", line 535, in main
  File "/home/alex/bin/youtube-dl/__init__.py", line 519, in _real_main
  File "/home/alex/bin/youtube-dl/FileDownloader.py", line 479, in download
  File "/home/alex/bin/youtube-dl/FileDownloader.py", line 373, in process_info
KeyError: 'format'

[FiloSottile]

You are right, we should specify which info_dict values are required, which are optional, and then do checks consequently. Next on the to-do list.

[yasoob]

I am getting this output not the same as yours and i am also not getting an error :

root@bt:~/Desktop/youtube-dl# python youtube_dl/__main__.py --get-format https://vimeo.com/43796489
mp4

[alexstuckey]

I just tried it again with a newer version of youtube-dl (2013.07.05) on a Mac and it worked successfully 👍

zeus:~ alex$ youtube-dl --get-format https://vimeo.com/43796489
mp4