This script is useful for cases where youtube-dl is unable to find the master url, for example on pages that require login or cookies.

Install requirements with pip install -r requirements.txt

Compilation instruction: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide

For ubuntu users:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media && sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 8E51A6D660CD88D67D65221D90BD7EACED8E640A
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

(The instructions are taken from here - warning: Russian!)

For MacOS users:

brew install ffmpeg

First you need the master.json request which has an hmac for rented/ondemand videos.

####Basic Steps: Load vimeo URL --> Open personal inspector --> play the video --> look for this:

To get the master url:

1. Open the network tab in the inspector
2. Find the url of a request to the master.json file
3. Run the script with the url as argument

Copy the full request and run the script, with some pre-setup steps:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt (or use pipenv, idgaf)

python3 vimeo-download.py --url "http://...master.json?base64_init=1" --output <optional_name>

You can download multiple files in parallel with GNU Parallel:

parallel -a master-files.txt python vimeo-download.py --url "{}"

Where master-files.txt contains a list of master URLs.

If you then need to merge the video/audio tracks, navigate to where the file was saved and run:

ffmpeg -i v.mp4 -i a.mp3 -c copy merged.mp4

Code merges the following gists:

• eMBee/vimeo-download#30
• https://gist.github.com/alexeygrigorev/a1bc540925054b71e1a7268e50ad55cd
• https://gist.github.com/tayiorbeii/d78c7e4b338b031ce8090b30b395a46f
• https://gist.github.com/paschoaletto/7f65b7e36b76ccde9fe52b74b62ab9df