14 Responses:

1. Scott Robinson says:

   11 years ago at 11:52 pm

   This jumped out at me.

   getVideoUrl: function(a) {
var b = this.config, e = this.controller.playableFiles,
d = e[a], c = null;
if (!e[a]) {
u.warn("No playable file of quality", a);
return a == S && g.mobileCanPlaySD() ? this.getVideoUrl(Da) : c
}
if (((new Date).getTime() / 1E3).round() - this.loadedTime > 21E3) {
u.info("Old signature expired, getting a new one!", b.request.signature);
e = "//" + b.request.player_url + "/config/" + b.video.id + "/signature?prev_signature=" + b.request.signature + "&prev_timestamp=" + b.request.timestamp;
e = (new XHR).getWithCredentials(e);
b.request.signature = e.signature;
b.request.timestamp = e.timestamp;
this.loadedTime =
((new Date).getTime() / 1E3).round();
u.info("New signature:", b.request.signature)
}
if (d) {
c = "//" + b.request.player_url + "/play_redirect";
c = c + ("?quality=" + a) + ("&codecs=" + d) + ("&clip_id=" + b.video.id);
c = c + ("&time=" + b.request.timestamp);
c = c + ("&sig=" + b.request.signature);
c = c + ("&type=html5_" + this.controller.playerMode + "_" + (b.embed.on_site ? "local" : "embed"))
}
u.debug("Video URL: " + c);
return c

   • Scott Robinson says:

     11 years ago at 11:55 pm

     That URL is constructed like https://player.vimeo.com/play_redirect?quality=hd&codecs=h264&clip_id=43940325&time=1340866292&sig=3b3b5e1bcae716a071f6640679b5410a&type=html5_desktop_local (to continue with your example)

     Then it's a 302 redirect to the raw MP4 on their CDN. (https://av.vimeo.com/56703/323/102884975.mp4?aksessionid=3b3b5e1bcae716a071f6640679b5410a&token=1340867357_e59053ffeddd9dd017d31e1b07b2fe37)

     • Scott Robinson says:

       11 years ago at 11:56 pm

       Yeah, or use the code timdoug pointed at. It scrapes the page, too easy!

2. timdoug says:

   11 years ago at 11:53 pm

   rg3's youtube-dl works fine with Vimeo links:

   $ youtube-dl http://vimeo.com/43940325
[vimeo] 43940325: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 43940325: Extracting information
[download] Destination: 43940325.mp4
[download] 100.0% of 74.49M at 835.22k/s ETA 00:00
$


   The Vimeo-specific code here might help.

   • jwz says:

     11 years ago at 12:31 am

     Wow, that was fast! Thanks!

     I had looked at the HTML in the page before, but plugging those values in to the av.vimeo.com URL didn't work; I hadn't realized that the play_redirect URL was key.

     youtubedown updated, Miro notified!

3. Pedro says:

   11 years ago at 2:24 am

   I see your problem has already been solved, but I'll leave this neat trick here anyway because it neatly circumvents this kind of website silliness by directly grabbing the local temp file created by the flash player plugin. (Caveat: you will need linux).

   Step 1: find the temporary file (which will already be unlinked):
   
$ lsof +L1 | grep /tmp/Flash
plugin-co 17666 paol 20w REG 8,2 78111247 0 130956 /tmp/FlashXXfU7zHE (deleted)


   Step 2: since the file is unlinked we can't open it by name, but with the PID and FD returned by lsof we can get it from the /proc filesystem:
   
$ cp /proc/17666/fd/20 whatever.mp4


   Step 3: profit!

   • Gabriel Rosenkoetter says:

     11 years ago at 11:42 pm

     That's actually much more generally useful. Thanks!

   • Pablo says:

     11 years ago at 11:05 pm

     You can even hard-link the file (faster than cp, no extra space needed)
     $ ln /proc/17666/fd/20 whatever.mp4

4. Frank says:

   11 years ago at 2:52 am

   If any Windows user is looking for a solution: StreamTransport (http://www.streamtransport.com/) seems to work fine. The downloaded video has the filename "404 Not Found.mp4" but it works fine.

5. Roger says:

   11 years ago at 4:03 pm

   #! /bin/bash

   clip=$1

   [ x$clip == x ] && clip=43940325

   rm -f $clip

   cat > cookie.txt &lt&ltEOF
   html_player=1; clips=$clip
   EOF

   wget --load-cookie=cookie.txt --save-cookie=xxx http://vimeo.com/$clip
   signature=$(cat $clip | tr "," "\n" | grep \"signature | cut -d\" -f4)
   timestamp=$(cat $clip | tr "," "\n" | grep \"timestamp | cut -d: -f2)

   echo $signature $timestamp

   wget --load-cookie=xxx "https://player.vimeo.com/play_redirect?quality=hd&codecs=h264&clip_id=$clip&time=$timestamp&sig=$signature&type=htm\
   l5_desktop_local"

6. austin says:

   11 years ago at 4:41 pm

   i was going to leave a comment about how the vimeo thing worked but it looks like everyone beat me too it (makes sense it didnt take long to figure out)

   • jwz says:

     11 years ago at 5:09 pm

     Cool story, Bro.

7. dude says:

   11 years ago at 8:09 pm

   Well you can also use firefox with the FlashGot add-on. It grabs most of the flv out there (youtube, vimeo,etc)

8. antoine says:

   11 years ago at 11:00 am

   Either way the bastards should be reported to the W3C for flagrant violation of HTTP status code semantics.