A tool to download Vimeo videos when you have access to their JSON playback manifest.

Usage

vimeo-dl --combine -i "${MASTER_JSON_URL}"

The input must be a master.json or playlist.json playback manifest URL, including any signed query string. A Vimeo video page URL or an HLS .m3u8 URL cannot be used as input. If the JSON manifest uses path-like init segments, request it with base64_init=1. If multiple segments resolve to the same media URL, request it with query_string_ranges=1. Quote the URL in the shell so & stays inside the argument. Signed manifest URLs can expire; obtain a fresh one if the request returns an HTTP error. The tool does not print signed media URLs. On filesystems with POSIX permissions, downloaded media is readable only by the current user.

Advanced Usage

# Download a video as ${clip_id}-video.mp4 (1080p).
The highest bitrate track is automatically selected.
vimeo-dl -i "https://skyfire.vimeocdn.com/xxx/yyy/live-archive/video/240p,360p,540p,720p,1080p/master.json?base64_init=1&query_string_ranges=1"

# Download a video as ${clip_id}-video.mp4 (720p) with the specified user-agent.
vimeo-dl -i "https://skyfire.vimeocdn.com/xxx/yyy/live-archive/video/240p,360p,540p,720p,1080p/master.json?base64_init=1&query_string_ranges=1" \
         --video-id "720p" \
         --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.89 Safari/537.36"
you can use jq command to list available formats associated ids (https://jqlang.org)
curl -s $URL | jq '[.video[] | {id, height, width, codecs}] | sort_by(.height)'

# Download a video as ${clip_id}.mp4.
vimeo-dl -i "https://8vod-adaptive.akamaized.net/xxx/yyy/sep/video/9f88d1ff,b83d0f9d,da44206b,f34fd50d,f9ebc26f/master.json?base64_init=1" \
         --video-id "b83d0f9d" \
         --audio-id "b83d0f9d" \
         --combine
Download a video as my-video-file-name.mp4.
vimeo-dl -i "https://8vod-adaptive.akamaized.net/xxx/yyy/sep/video/9f88d1ff,b83d0f9d,da44206b,f34fd50d,f9ebc26f/master.json?base64_init=1" \
         --video-id "b83d0f9d" \
         --audio-id "b83d0f9d" \
         --combine \
         --output-file-name "my-video-file-name"
The combine option is equivalent to the following command.
vimeo-dl -i "https://8vod-adaptive.akamaized.net/xxx/yyy/sep/video/9f88d1ff,b83d0f9d,da44206b,f34fd50d,f9ebc26f/master.json?base64_init=1" \
         --video-id "b83d0f9d" \
         --audio-id "b83d0f9d"
ffmpeg -i ${clip_id}-video.mp4 -i ${clip_id}-audio.mp4 -c copy ${clip_id}.mp4

Options

Usage:
  vimeo-dl [flags]
Flags:
      --audio-id string           audio id
      --combine                   combine video and audio into a single mp4 (ffmpeg is required)
  -h, --help                      help for vimeo-dl
  -i, --input string              url for master.json or playlist.json (required)
  -o, --output-file-name string   output file name
      --user-agent string         user-agent for request
  -v, --version                   version for vimeo-dl
      --video-id string           video id

Install