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How to download videos from Vimeo (when yt-dlp doesn't work)

At this particular moment in time, yt-dlp (v2024.05.27) apparently isn't able to download videos from the (shitty) Vimeo platform. Try this...

  1. on the video page, click the Share icon and copy the embed code
  2. paste the embed code in a text editor and copy the video source URL (the part after src=") up to the first "?" character (https://player.vimeo.com/video/<video_id>)
  3. open the video URL in your browser and view the HTML source
  4. search the HTML for https://vod-progressive.akamaized.net/ and copy the entire URL, ending just before the double quote (the URL may end in ".mp4")
  5. open that URL in your browser and press Ctrl+S