Vimeo not downloading HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[bilalghouri]

youtube-dl https://vimeo.com/7809605

[vimeo] 7809605: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 7809605: Extracting information
[vimeo] 7809605: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 7809605: Downloading JSON metadata
[vimeo] 7809605: Downloading m3u8 information
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[dstftw]

Post the full output of youtube-dl when run with --verbose option.

[bilalghouri]

Sorry about that:

youtube-dl https://vimeo.com/7809605 --verbose

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://vimeo.com/7809605', u'--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.01.01
[debug] Python version 2.7.9 - Linux-3.16.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-8.2
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vimeo] 7809605: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 7809605: Extracting information
[vimeo] 7809605: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 7809605: Downloading JSON metadata
[vimeo] 7809605: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://vimeo.com/7809605/download?t=1452284032&v=12289168&s=42e829b677e542fd465bd7a4f220f1011bf957b21e721971490599c580490a8a'
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1609, in process_info
success = dl(filename, info_dict)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1551, in dl
return fd.download(name, info)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 342, in download
return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 58, in real_download
data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1886, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error
return self._call_chain(_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
result = func(_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

It is working with other videos like: https://vimeo.com/107745519

[dstftw]

Will be fixed in the next version. For now you can download specifying different format code, e.g. -f http-720p.