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Downloading segmented video from vimeo
import requests
import base64
from tqdm import tqdm
master_json_url = 'https://178skyfiregce-a.akamaihd.net/exp=1474107106~acl=%2F142089577%2F%2A~hmac=0d9becc441fc5385462d53bf59cf019c0184690862f49b414e9a2f1c5bafbe0d/142089577/video/426274424,426274425,426274423,426274422/master.json?base64_init=1'
base_url = master_json_url[:master_json_url.rfind('/', 0, -26) + 1]
resp = requests.get(master_json_url)
content = resp.json()
heights = [(i, d['height']) for (i, d) in enumerate(content['video'])]
idx, _ = max(heights, key=lambda (_, h): h)
video = content['video'][idx]
video_base_url = base_url + video['base_url']
print 'base url:', video_base_url
filename = 'video_%d.mp4' % video['id']
print 'saving to %s' % filename
video_file = open(filename, 'wb')
init_segment = base64.b64decode(video['init_segment'])
video_file.write(init_segment)
for segment in tqdm(video['segments']):
segment_url = video_base_url + segment['url']
resp = requests.get(segment_url, stream=True)
if resp.status_code != 200:
print 'not 200!'
print resp
print segment_url
break
for chunk in resp:
video_file.write(chunk)
video_file.flush()
video_file.close()
@Alpandrade
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install python to your system, then in command line run

python -m pip install requests tqdm moviepy

save code above to vimeo.py file, then run

python vimeo.py

Thank you. It works like a charm!

@JamesPness
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JamesPness commented Aug 9, 2024

Got an issue on some videos, I've been downloading protected content using the method described in the quoted post for months, and it is still working today. However, I've recently encountered an issue with some videos (very few) where the link structure, retrieved from the Network tab in the browser, differs and appears to be a playlist link instead, such as:
https://vod-adaptive-ak.vimeocdn.com/exp=1718799796~acl=%2F2f9924f1-1fc4-4376-af68-5d2a3ffeedc7%2F%2A~hmac=9a978d8566fa0647e5f167d11f174cb84cc50f19399d7777179b8719617e7376/2f9924f1-1fc4-4376-af68-5d2a3ffeedc7/v2/playlist/av/primary/playlist.json?omit=av1-hevc&pathsig=8c953e4f~mocADbIwYJxqL3msRkLnDH_vlRmkehQ1vWwYBLrsVn0&qsr=1&rh=4cRiZu
How am I supposed to download this? Or how can I retrieve the real link?

got an issue, been downloading a bunch of video for days and then suddenly the one that was downloading ended up with this error:
F:\ffmpeg>youtube-dl.exe -o 22-10-23PERF.mp4 https://91vod-adaptive.akamaized.net/exp=1699318792~acl=%2F222d9b05-2ac9-4bf1-a98e-c821e509c8fa%2F%2A~hmac=5924a2ed3f6704c9aa9892d413bbbac8da8b7428ebafad976496229f310d7d8a/222d9b05-2ac9-4bf1-a98e-c821e509c8fa/sep/video/2ed9800f,b18fccd0,cbccf898,e88838cd,effa0196/audio/2deec4db,8c92b620,fd7a357a/master.mpd?query_string_ranges=1 [generic] master: Requesting header WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor. [generic] master: Downloading webpage [generic] master: Extracting information [dashsegments] Total fragments: 1069 [download] Destination: 22-10-23PERF.fvideo-2ed9800f.mp4 [download] 8.9% of ~571.81MiB at 549.60KiB/s ETA 23:44 ERROR: unable to download video data: <urlopen error [SSL: TLSV1_ALERT_INTERNAL_ERROR] tlsv1 alert internal error (_ssl.c:600)>
then now when I try ANY video, even ones from the past that were successfully downloaded, I end up with this error:
F:\ffmpeg>youtube-dl.exe -o 24-10-23.mp4 https://194vod-adaptive.akamaized.net/exp=1699310038~acl=%2Fb852eef9-3848-48a9-81af-a6bb0c3bb101%2F%2A~hmac=64987b83dd191c8ee0833181540fe12c44f6937f244256cc9fe42a15c4a4ede4/b852eef9-3848-48a9-81af-a6bb0c3bb101/sep/video/4ea580af,58650cf4,9886125d,a4f6fd04,ad9e4799/audio/3de08f2b,a69e0c39,c8ff288c/master.mpd?query_string_ranges=1 [generic] Extracting URL: https://194vod-adaptive.akamaized.net/exp=1699310038~acl=%2Fb852eef9-3848-48a9-81af-a6bb0c3bb101%...uery_string_ranges=1 [generic] master: Downloading webpage ERROR: [generic] Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 410: Gone (caused by <HTTPError 410: Gone>); please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U
And yes, it is up to date:
F:\ffmpeg>youtube-dl.exe -U Available version: stable@2023.10.13, Current version: stable@2023.10.13 yt-dlp is up to date (stable@2023.10.13)
Help please?

solved:
this command was to try to resume a failed download from yesterday (while I was sleeping), so I re typed the exact same command to resume the download except that when I went on the video to compare the source, it has changed. Typing the same command with the fresh URL worked as usual.
F:\ffmpeg>youtube-dl.exe -o 24-10-23.mp4 https://194vod-adaptive.akamaized.net/exp=1699353551~acl=%2Fb852eef9-3848-48a9-81af-a6bb0c3bb101%2F%2A~hmac=75ad5d633886e2d01ef04535372fa4342bd0aa2da02b5d160c9702ea04ebea50/b852eef9-3848-48a9-81af-a6bb0c3bb101/sep/video/4ea580af,58650cf4,9886125d,a4f6fd04,ad9e4799/audio/3de08f2b,a69e0c39,c8ff288c/master.mpd?query_string_ranges=1 [generic] Extracting URL: https://194vod-adaptive.akamaized.net/exp=1699353551~acl=%2Fb852eef9-3848-48a9-81af-a6bb0c3bb101%...uery_string_ranges=1 [generic] master: Downloading webpage WARNING: [generic] Falling back on generic information extractor [generic] master: Extracting information [info] master: Downloading 1 format(s): video-9886125d+audio-3de08f2b [dashsegments] Total fragments: 658 [download] Destination: 24-10-23.fvideo-9886125d.mp4 [download] 37.7% of ~ 458.35MiB at 434.71KiB/s ETA 09:58 (frag 248/658)
my guess is that Vimeo updates it's URL sources every x hours (these bastards)

Here modified (python3) script for download both playlist.json and master.json link types.

import os
import sys
import base64
import requests
import subprocess

from tqdm import tqdm
from moviepy.editor import *


url = input('enter [master|playlist].json url: ')
name = input('enter output name: ')

if 'master.json' in url:
    url = url[:url.find('?')] + '?query_string_ranges=1'
    url = url.replace('master.json', 'master.mpd')
    print(url)
    subprocess.run(['youtube-dl', url, '-o', name])
    sys.exit(0)


def download(what, to, base):
    print('saving', what['mime_type'], 'to', to)
    with open(to, 'wb') as file:
        init_segment = base64.b64decode(what['init_segment'])
        file.write(init_segment)

        for segment in tqdm(what['segments']):
            segment_url = base + segment['url']
            resp = requests.get(segment_url, stream=True)
            if resp.status_code != 200:
                print('not 200!')
                print(segment_url)
                break
            for chunk in resp:
                file.write(chunk)
    print('done')


name += '.mp4'
base_url = url[:url.rfind('/', 0, -26) + 1]
content = requests.get(url).json()

vid_heights = [(i, d['height']) for (i, d) in enumerate(content['video'])]
vid_idx, _ = max(vid_heights, key=lambda _h: _h[1])

audio_quality = [(i, d['bitrate']) for (i, d) in enumerate(content['audio'])]
audio_idx, _ = max(audio_quality, key=lambda _h: _h[1])

video = content['video'][vid_idx]
audio = content['audio'][audio_idx]
base_url = base_url + content['base_url']

video_tmp_file = 'video.mp4'
audio_tmp_file = 'audio.mp4'

download(video, video_tmp_file, base_url + video['base_url'])
download(audio, audio_tmp_file, base_url + audio['base_url'])

video_clip = VideoFileClip(video_tmp_file)
audio_clip = AudioFileClip(audio_tmp_file)
video_clip_with_audio = video_clip.set_audio(audio_clip)
video_clip_with_audio.write_videofile(name)

os.remove(video_tmp_file)
os.remove(audio_tmp_file)

To who ever made this:
Thank you so much for fixing all my problems, you are an absolute legend!! Can stress enough how great the script is, Thanks!!

@Sogl
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Sogl commented Aug 23, 2024

But how to download when I have only playlist.m3u8 and no playlist.json (or master.json as it used to be)?

image

UPDATE. Got a solution with ffmpeg command:

ffmpeg -protocol_whitelist file,http,https,tcp,tls,crypto -i 
"https://vod-adaptive-ak.vimeocdn.com/exp=1724447363~acl=%2Feb09e983-499f-48e7-9987-a83d1cd1f393%2F%2A~hmac=
43f6b6fac6de2ed822b2c4435256879c85f77b6a045cbb86b3fb8dd42e98342c8c/eb09e983-499f-48e7-9987-a83d1cd1f393
/v2/playlist/av/primary/playlist.m3u8?locale=pl&omit=av1-opus
&pathsig=8c953e4f~5vyN96md7Ianyk-S0EheVDFA6_b8dDQHweA-OGZNMig&qsr=1&rh=1CCyfI&sf=fmp4"
-c copy video.mp4

That's how I was able to download the videos I wanted.

@151SoGood
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Got an issue on some videos, I've been downloading protected content using the method described in the quoted post for months, and it is still working today. However, I've recently encountered an issue with some videos (very few) where the link structure, retrieved from the Network tab in the browser, differs and appears to be a playlist link instead, such as:
https://vod-adaptive-ak.vimeocdn.com/exp=1718799796~acl=%2F2f9924f1-1fc4-4376-af68-5d2a3ffeedc7%2F%2A~hmac=9a978d8566fa0647e5f167d11f174cb84cc50f19399d7777179b8719617e7376/2f9924f1-1fc4-4376-af68-5d2a3ffeedc7/v2/playlist/av/primary/playlist.json?omit=av1-hevc&pathsig=8c953e4f~mocADbIwYJxqL3msRkLnDH_vlRmkehQ1vWwYBLrsVn0&qsr=1&rh=4cRiZu
How am I supposed to download this? Or how can I retrieve the real link?

got an issue, been downloading a bunch of video for days and then suddenly the one that was downloading ended up with this error:
F:\ffmpeg>youtube-dl.exe -o 22-10-23PERF.mp4 https://91vod-adaptive.akamaized.net/exp=1699318792~acl=%2F222d9b05-2ac9-4bf1-a98e-c821e509c8fa%2F%2A~hmac=5924a2ed3f6704c9aa9892d413bbbac8da8b7428ebafad976496229f310d7d8a/222d9b05-2ac9-4bf1-a98e-c821e509c8fa/sep/video/2ed9800f,b18fccd0,cbccf898,e88838cd,effa0196/audio/2deec4db,8c92b620,fd7a357a/master.mpd?query_string_ranges=1 [generic] master: Requesting header WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor. [generic] master: Downloading webpage [generic] master: Extracting information [dashsegments] Total fragments: 1069 [download] Destination: 22-10-23PERF.fvideo-2ed9800f.mp4 [download] 8.9% of ~571.81MiB at 549.60KiB/s ETA 23:44 ERROR: unable to download video data: <urlopen error [SSL: TLSV1_ALERT_INTERNAL_ERROR] tlsv1 alert internal error (_ssl.c:600)>
then now when I try ANY video, even ones from the past that were successfully downloaded, I end up with this error:
F:\ffmpeg>youtube-dl.exe -o 24-10-23.mp4 https://194vod-adaptive.akamaized.net/exp=1699310038~acl=%2Fb852eef9-3848-48a9-81af-a6bb0c3bb101%2F%2A~hmac=64987b83dd191c8ee0833181540fe12c44f6937f244256cc9fe42a15c4a4ede4/b852eef9-3848-48a9-81af-a6bb0c3bb101/sep/video/4ea580af,58650cf4,9886125d,a4f6fd04,ad9e4799/audio/3de08f2b,a69e0c39,c8ff288c/master.mpd?query_string_ranges=1 [generic] Extracting URL: https://194vod-adaptive.akamaized.net/exp=1699310038~acl=%2Fb852eef9-3848-48a9-81af-a6bb0c3bb101%...uery_string_ranges=1 [generic] master: Downloading webpage ERROR: [generic] Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 410: Gone (caused by <HTTPError 410: Gone>); please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U
And yes, it is up to date:
F:\ffmpeg>youtube-dl.exe -U Available version: stable@2023.10.13, Current version: stable@2023.10.13 yt-dlp is up to date (stable@2023.10.13)
Help please?

solved:
this command was to try to resume a failed download from yesterday (while I was sleeping), so I re typed the exact same command to resume the download except that when I went on the video to compare the source, it has changed. Typing the same command with the fresh URL worked as usual.
F:\ffmpeg>youtube-dl.exe -o 24-10-23.mp4 https://194vod-adaptive.akamaized.net/exp=1699353551~acl=%2Fb852eef9-3848-48a9-81af-a6bb0c3bb101%2F%2A~hmac=75ad5d633886e2d01ef04535372fa4342bd0aa2da02b5d160c9702ea04ebea50/b852eef9-3848-48a9-81af-a6bb0c3bb101/sep/video/4ea580af,58650cf4,9886125d,a4f6fd04,ad9e4799/audio/3de08f2b,a69e0c39,c8ff288c/master.mpd?query_string_ranges=1 [generic] Extracting URL: https://194vod-adaptive.akamaized.net/exp=1699353551~acl=%2Fb852eef9-3848-48a9-81af-a6bb0c3bb101%...uery_string_ranges=1 [generic] master: Downloading webpage WARNING: [generic] Falling back on generic information extractor [generic] master: Extracting information [info] master: Downloading 1 format(s): video-9886125d+audio-3de08f2b [dashsegments] Total fragments: 658 [download] Destination: 24-10-23.fvideo-9886125d.mp4 [download] 37.7% of ~ 458.35MiB at 434.71KiB/s ETA 09:58 (frag 248/658)
my guess is that Vimeo updates it's URL sources every x hours (these bastards)

Here modified (python3) script for download both playlist.json and master.json link types.

import os
import sys
import base64
import requests
import subprocess

from tqdm import tqdm
from moviepy.editor import *


url = input('enter [master|playlist].json url: ')
name = input('enter output name: ')

if 'master.json' in url:
    url = url[:url.find('?')] + '?query_string_ranges=1'
    url = url.replace('master.json', 'master.mpd')
    print(url)
    subprocess.run(['youtube-dl', url, '-o', name])
    sys.exit(0)


def download(what, to, base):
    print('saving', what['mime_type'], 'to', to)
    with open(to, 'wb') as file:
        init_segment = base64.b64decode(what['init_segment'])
        file.write(init_segment)

        for segment in tqdm(what['segments']):
            segment_url = base + segment['url']
            resp = requests.get(segment_url, stream=True)
            if resp.status_code != 200:
                print('not 200!')
                print(segment_url)
                break
            for chunk in resp:
                file.write(chunk)
    print('done')


name += '.mp4'
base_url = url[:url.rfind('/', 0, -26) + 1]
content = requests.get(url).json()

vid_heights = [(i, d['height']) for (i, d) in enumerate(content['video'])]
vid_idx, _ = max(vid_heights, key=lambda _h: _h[1])

audio_quality = [(i, d['bitrate']) for (i, d) in enumerate(content['audio'])]
audio_idx, _ = max(audio_quality, key=lambda _h: _h[1])

video = content['video'][vid_idx]
audio = content['audio'][audio_idx]
base_url = base_url + content['base_url']

video_tmp_file = 'video.mp4'
audio_tmp_file = 'audio.mp4'

download(video, video_tmp_file, base_url + video['base_url'])
download(audio, audio_tmp_file, base_url + audio['base_url'])

video_clip = VideoFileClip(video_tmp_file)
audio_clip = AudioFileClip(audio_tmp_file)
video_clip_with_audio = video_clip.set_audio(audio_clip)
video_clip_with_audio.write_videofile(name)

os.remove(video_tmp_file)
os.remove(audio_tmp_file)

This re-encodes the video - is there a way to avoid doing that? I thought ffmpeg can just combine the two video + audio files - wouldn't that be easier/more efficient?

Also how would I change it so that I can set the quality I'd want to download? i.e. instead of max quality

@Gnumaru
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Gnumaru commented Sep 1, 2024

This re-encodes the video - is there a way to avoid doing that?

see my previous comment

https://gist.github.com/alexeygrigorev/a1bc540925054b71e1a7268e50ad55cd?permalink_comment_id=5112477#gistcomment-5112477

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