vimeo link stuck processing forever

[amit777]

eg:

python youtube-dl --dump-json https://vimeo.com/groups/travelhd/videos/146159746

The command seems to just get stuck forever. Is this a bug? I tried adding socket-timeout but no effect.

[phihag]

The link seems to be misdetected as the group - I assume you want to download just one video?

--dump-json is meant for machine-readable output, and therefore there is no status display. Leave it out and see that youtube-dl is dilligently fetching the information for all 40000 videos. Depending on your Internet connection, that may take a while.

[amit777]

oh, I see. I just want to download the metadata for one video. I don't need to actually download the full video. Is it a bug in the detection algorithm or is this expected? Also, is there any simple way to add a timeout to the script execution?