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Vimeo no longer can find “source” format #9878
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I have found something strange. As a random test, I logged in to Vimeo and dumped my cookies. Even though the videos are public, with cookies, source appears as a format. Remove the cookies and back to no source format. |
I also have this problem. Even if I have updated the yt-dlp nightly version to 2024.05.08.232715, the source cannot be displayed. Have you found a solution? |
The only solution that I have found so far was to login to my free account and then use --cookies. You probably could use --cookies-from-browser but I didn't want to do all that for a few downloads. |
Thank you very much for your reply! I would like to ask you how you use cookies. I'm so sorrythat I don't understand such a simple question. I may need to trouble you to explain it a little bit.♥ |
Basically you just need something like "Open Cookies.txt" for Chrome/Edge or "cookies.txt" for Firefox. Then after you login to Vimeo.com after making an account or logging in to am account, click the addon and save the text. You then can add --cookies cookie.txt to yt-dlp and it will send that info along with the request. To make it slightly easier, you could try logging in to Vimeo.com then just doing --cookies-from-browser chrome (or Firefox & others) and often it can load them directly from the browser, saving the txt file step. |
Do you have any reason to believe why source formats should still be available without logging in? From the Vimeo documentation:
This is also reflected on the website, as clicking on the download button without being logged in no longer shows the source file. |
Thanks again for the info! I didn't see that part of the website. For some reason, yt-dlp for at least 2 weeks was able to grab Original without logging in but now it definitely does require a login just like you said even on the website. |
If you look at an archived version of that page, you can see that they only recently changed this https://web.archive.org/web/20240417180036/https://help.vimeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/12426502581265-How-to-download-a-video Unless there is say some other downloader that can still grab source files without logging in, I don't see much point in keeping this issue open. |
Thanks! I have received advice from experts through Discord and successfully downloaded the source format. |
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yt-dlp seems to no longer be finding the “source” format for Vimeo videos, even ones that were previously working.
These links for a fact all had the source format a week ago.
https://vimeo.com/928483972
https://vimeo.com/930776087
https://vimeo.com/933308863
https://vimeo.com/936307221
https://vimeo.com/939127773
Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem
yt-dlp -vU <your command line>
)'verbose': True
toYoutubeDL
params instead[debug] Command-line config
) and insert it belowComplete Verbose Output
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