youtube-dl: Vimeo On Demand download not working (I get the trailer)

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I’m trying to download a rented On Demand video from Vimeo, but I get the trailer, not the full movie.

In the logs I see WARNING: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden, but if I try with a bad password then I get ERROR: Wrong login info: HTTP Error 418 so the password is valid.

I will have access to the movie for 24h, email me at first.last@gmail.com and I can provide account credentials.

$ youtube-dl https://vimeo.com/ondemand/distract -u FOO -p BAR -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://vimeo.com/ondemand/distract', u'-u', u'PRIVATE', u'-p', u'PRIVATE', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.03.02
[debug] Python version 2.7.13 - Darwin-16.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vimeo:ondemand] distract: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] Logging in
[vimeo] 204148215: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 204148215: Extracting information
[vimeo] 204148215: Downloading JSON metadata
WARNING: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
[vimeo] 204148215: Downloading akfire_interconnect m3u8 information
[vimeo] 204148215: Downloading fastly_skyfire m3u8 information
[vimeo] 204148215: Downloading akfire_interconnect_quic MPD information
[vimeo] 204148215: Downloading akfire_interconnect_quic MPD information
[vimeo] 204148215: Downloading fastly_skyfire MPD information
[vimeo] 204148215: Downloading fastly_skyfire MPD information
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://skyfire.vimeocdn.com/1488575127-0xa49db4470ebb2e3dae60f04429d9095b0641fc94/204148215/video/693502553,693502569,693502568,693502562/../'
[download] Dis.Traction-204148215.mp4 has already been downloaded
[download] 100% of 17.94MiB

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Try to change suffix of url master.json?base64_init=1 into master.mpd. Have a look at akamai documentation.

luvarpt on Dec 12, 2019

I’m also running into the same issue with a purchased movie: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/ironskythecomingrace/333753177

$ python -m youtube_dl --version
2019.07.16

$ python -m youtube_dl -v --username <snip> --password <snip> https://vimeo.com/ondemand/ironskythecomingrace
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--username', 'PRIVATE', '--password', 'PRIVATE', 'https://vimeo.com/ondemand/ironskythecomingrace']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.07.16
[debug] Git HEAD: 5e1c39ac8
[debug] Python version 3.7.3 (CPython) - Darwin-18.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1.3, ffprobe 4.1.3, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vimeo:ondemand] ironskythecomingrace: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] Downloading login page
[vimeo] Logging in
[vimeo] 333753416: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 333753416: Extracting information
[vimeo] 333753416: Downloading JSON metadata
WARNING: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
[vimeo] 333753416: Downloading akfire_interconnect_quic m3u8 information
[vimeo] 333753416: Downloading fastly_skyfire m3u8 information
[vimeo] 333753416: Downloading akfire_interconnect_quic MPD information
[vimeo] 333753416: Downloading akfire_interconnect_quic MPD information
[vimeo] 333753416: Downloading fastly_skyfire MPD information
[vimeo] 333753416: Downloading fastly_skyfire MPD information
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://skyfire.vimeocdn.com/1563609849-0x5c2b9fd8c96db33e3821c944620393a4886c6d8a/333753416/sep/video/1316832053,1316832548,1316846646,1316832547,1316832545,1316832543,1316832540,1316832539,1316832538,1316832043/master.mpd?base64_init=1'
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 23
[download] Destination: Iron Sky The Coming Race-333753416.fdash-fastly_skyfire_sep-video-1316832545.mp4
[download] 100% of 61.93MiB in 00:22
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://skyfire.vimeocdn.com/1563609849-0x5c2b9fd8c96db33e3821c944620393a4886c6d8a/333753416/sep/video/1316832053,1316832548,1316846646,1316832547,1316832545,1316832543,1316832540,1316832539,1316832538,1316832043/master.mpd?base64_init=1'
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 23
[download] Destination: Iron Sky The Coming Race-333753416.fdash-fastly_skyfire_sep-audio-1316832053.m4a
[download] 100% of 1.58MiB in 00:09
[ffmpeg] Merging formats into "Iron Sky The Coming Race-333753416.mp4"
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel repeat+info -i 'file:Iron Sky The Coming Race-333753416.fdash-fastly_skyfire_sep-video-1316832545.mp4' -i 'file:Iron Sky The Coming Race-333753416.fdash-fastly_skyfire_sep-audio-1316832053.m4a' -c copy -map 0:v:0 -map 1:a:0 'file:Iron Sky The Coming Race-333753416.temp.mp4'
Deleting original file Iron Sky The Coming Race-333753416.fdash-fastly_skyfire_sep-video-1316832545.mp4 (pass -k to keep)
Deleting original file Iron Sky The Coming Race-333753416.fdash-fastly_skyfire_sep-audio-1316832053.m4a (pass -k to keep)

Short-circuiting the is_rented function (https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py#L649) to force returning True or False doesn’t seem to help.

If I log in via Chrome and view the network requests (as outlined in #15549), open the JSON config, and extract the m3u8 url, then I can download the movie without a problem. I noticed also that, unsurprisingly, curling the URL (without authentication) gives an m3u8 url to the trailer rather than the full video:

# Authenticated player config:
# 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# Unauthenticated player config:
$ curl https://player.vimeo.com/video/333753177/config\?autoplay\=0\&badge\=0\&byline\=0\&color\=bf6040\&context\=Vimeo%5CController%5COnDemandController.main\&default_to_hd\=1\&portrait\=0\&title\=1\&s\=ca68585ba480fdc08faa2d20f58f80113e2a1600_1563704860
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# Download using the url the authenticated player config:
$ python -m youtube_dl --hls-prefer-native https://178skyfiregce-vimeo.akamaized.net/exp\=1563626736\~acl\=%2F333753177%2F%2A\~hmac\=00e9dff6d3d00077628483064e8a9a22723e05b577a88aef0ef2030626507c41/333753177/video/1316852834,1316867404,1316852906,1316852896,1316852835/master.m3u8
[generic] master: Requesting header
[generic] master: Downloading m3u8 information
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 925
[download] Destination: master-master.mp4
[download] 100% of 2.74GiB in 18:10
[ffmpeg] Fixing malformed AAC bitstream in "master-master.mp4"

I suspect that the WARNING: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden error may be the issue. I’m happy to troubleshoot or provide credentials.

seren on Jul 20, 2019

Alright, I figured out the culprit. It is this piece of code beginning on line 559 in extractor/vimeo.py:

if is_rented():
    feature_id = config.get('video', {}).get('vod', {}).get('feature_id')
    if feature_id and not data.get('force_feature_id', False):
        return self.url_result(smuggle_url(
            'https://player.vimeo.com/player/%s' % feature_id,
            {'force_feature_id': True}), 'Vimeo')

I don’t really know why it is there but it apparently does what it says on the tin. It forces the download of the feature, which in case of the original issuer seems to have been the trailer of his rented movie.

Commenting out this piece of code allowed me to download all videos belonging to my rental.

I’m sure there is (or at least was) a good reason to include this functionality so it might not be the best idea to remove it, but without delving deeper into the whole thing I cannot provide any better solution.

ghost on Mar 24, 2017