A fixed Vimeo Downloader for Linux

I came across a video on Vimeo that I wanted to download to my computer so that I could watch it later. The Vimeo Downloader script for Linux no longer works as Vimeo have updated their site. So I fixed it:

https://raw.github.com/johnteslade/vimeo-downloader/master/vimeo_downloader.sh

Source code repository: https://github.com/johnteslade/vimeo-downloader

Usage

Run the following from the command line:

./vimeo_downloader.sh http://vimeo.com/1084537

Update 28th Jan 2014

This script was broken following some changes made to the Vimeo site. The script on github now works again.

However, if you would like a cleaner interface I would recommend using the youtube-dl tool which, despite the name, supports Vimeo downloads. This tool is available in pypi and in many Linux package repositories.

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10Comments

screamy • 2012-06-25T20:05:41+00:00

Thanks for the fix my friend
bcardoso • 2012-06-28T21:16:43+00:00

thanks for fixing it!
PJ • 2012-07-05T12:03:02+00:00

Hey John,

The script seems to throw some errors:

./vimeo_downloader.sh http://vimeo.com/37031074
/usr/bin/curl
Using curl…
/usr/bin/perl
Using perl…
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 35201 0 35201 0 0 21057 0 –:–:– 0:00:01 –:–:– 61219
./vimeo_downloader.sh: line 65: [: too many arguments

Downloading video 37031074 to 37031074-sd.flv…
Request_signature=43e673e21a2754d02f4cdd8d6bae39d0
Request_signature_expires=1341489633

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 1583 100 1583 0 0 2511 0 –:–:– –:–:– –:–:– 14794

Video 37031074 saved to 37031074-sd.flv
37031074-sd.flv: HTML document text

Any ideas what’s going on?
Thanks John, good to see a fellow Brightonian in the webosphere!
John Slade • 2012-07-05T22:08:28+00:00 Author

Hi PJ,

I have updated the script to fix the problem you had. Let me know if you are still having problems.
Jesus • 2012-08-04T21:22:47+00:00

Thanks for the fix. I’ve been looking for this for long time
someone • 2013-11-02T14:53:53+00:00

Hi John!
Seems that your script does not work anymore (seems to stumble on some protection mechanism).
An example:
./vimeo_downloader.sh http://vimeo.com/73004411
Cheeers
joe • 2014-01-28T14:30:19+00:00

Hi John!
Seems that your script does not work anymore
./vimeo_downloader.sh: 63: [: -eq: unexpected operator
?
John Slade • 2014-01-28T17:04:39+00:00 Author

Script is now fixed and I can download that Vimeo url correctly
John Slade • 2014-01-28T17:05:06+00:00 Author

Script is now fixed. Get the latest version from github.
Steve • 2014-12-30T16:02:41+00:00

Great work! Thanks John Slade!