Usage: `python vimeo_downloader.py http://...master.json optional_name.mp4` modified from https://gist.github.com/alexeygrigorev/a1bc540925054b71e1a7268e50ad55cd

vimeo_downloader.py

import requests
import base64
from tqdm import tqdm
import sys

master_json_url = sys.argv[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 = sys.argv[2] if sys.argv[2] else '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()

i have merged all gists into a repo here: https://github.com/eMBee/vimeo-download

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