"Hidden" Vimeo Videos are an "Unsupported URL"

[danfiscus]

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

$ youtube-dl -v https://vimeo.com/160743502/abd0e13fb4
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://vimeo.com/160743502/abd0e13fb4']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.04.13
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-14.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.7.1, ffprobe 2.7.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] abd0e13fb4: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] abd0e13fb4: Downloading webpage
[generic] abd0e13fb4: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://vimeo.com/160743502/abd0e13fb4
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1360, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 279, in compat_etree_fromstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=etree.TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 268, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 92, column 136
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 671, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 341, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2024, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://vimeo.com/160743502/abd0e13fb4

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I was attempting to download a video from Vimeo with an unusual URL (I believe it is hidden in some way only available to Pro users, as I was unable to find a privacy setting that resulted in a similar URL scheme when uploading a test video to my account. The URL is a valid video, and when you visit it it looks like a normal Vimeo player page, but youtube-dl doesn't recognize the URL scheme as valid for some reason.

[LeoLamCY]

After a quick look at the vimeo extractor, it seems to only match query strings like /?param1=abc&param2=def after the video id at the end and not an arbitrary string like abd0e13fb4 in your link.
Either remove the string after the video id or the vimeo extractor will need to be updated to ignore non query strings if they don't serve any purpose.

[danfiscus]

@LeoLamCY The URL requires the second part of the string as well, so the extractor needs to be updated.