Use youtube-dl directly to download the video (thanks @meepybub!) Example:
youtube-dl -u <youremailaddress@example.com> "https://vimeo.com/ondemand/<video>"If variant 1 doesn't work, try this.
Login to Vimeo and get the cookies.txt file using this Chrome plugin
Use youtube-dl to download the video Example:
youtube-dl "https://vimeo.com/ondemand/<video>" --cookies cookies.txtI had a lot of success with this repo for private videos: https://github.com/Tusko/vimeo-private-downloader
Update: currently nothing works. 😢 Purchased (not rented) video, tried with user account and/or cookies.txt. It seems we're blocked by Google CDN which is hosting the video fragments.
$ youtube-dl --cookies cookies.txt -u <user> https://vimeo.com/ondemand/<video>
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 910
[download] Destination: <video>.fdash-google_mediacdn_sep-video-de62fcb4.mp4
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 1 of 10)...
Using latest youtube-dl from Github.
I would like to point out a few minor details.
You must have a Vimeo account, do not sign in via Google or anything else,yt-dlp asks for your email address and password to log in.
You must install the yt-dlp via the command below (for MacOS):
brew install yt-dlp
and then, when the installation is completed, you must use the command below to download the video:
yt-dlp -u your_email@youremail.com https://vimeo.com/ondemand/linktoyourvideo
It will ask for your password to log in, enter it. Your download should begin.
THIS ONLY WORKS IF YOU HAVE A VIMEO ACCOUNT. If you're signed into Vimeo via a Google, Facebook, or Apple account, the variants don't work.