Youtube-DL being an amazing tool as it is, has a way to download Vimeo videos that give the following error:
Cannot download embed-only video without embedding URL. Please call youtube-dl with the URL of the page that embeds this video.
To do so, we needed to use the --referer
parameter with the value of the website that we found the embedded video on. For example:
youtube-dl -v "https://player.vimeo.com/video/622fa342f" --referer "https://example.com/courses/intro/hello/";
The --referer
parameter specifies a custom referer and can be used if the video access is restricted to one domain.
(youtube-dl) tux@bob:~$ youtube-dl -v "https://player.vimeo.com/video/622fa342f" [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Custom config: [] [debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://player.vimeo.com/video/622fa342f'] [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8 [debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17 [debug] Python version 3.9.7 (CPython) - Linux-5.13.0-44-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.31 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg present, ffprobe present [debug] Proxy map: {} 622fa342f: Downloading webpage ERROR: Cannot download embed-only video without embedding URL. Please call youtube-dl with the URL of the page that embeds this video. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 634, in _request_webpage return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request) File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2288, in urlopen return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout) File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 523, in open response = meth(req, response) File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 632, in http_response response = self.parent.error( File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 561, in error return self._call_chain(*args) File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 494, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 641, in http_error_default raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp) urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py", line 636, in _real_extract webpage, urlh = self._download_webpage_handle( File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 667, in _download_webpage_handle urlh = self._request_webpage(url_or_request, video_id, note, errnote, fatal, data=data, headers=headers, query=query, expected_status=expected_status) File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 652, in _request_webpage raise ExtractorError(errmsg, sys.exc_info()[2], cause=err) youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by <HTTPError 403: 'Forbidden'>); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 634, in _request_webpage return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request) File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2288, in urlopen return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout) File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 523, in open response = meth(req, response) File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 632, in http_response response = self.parent.error( File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 561, in error return self._call_chain(*args) File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 494, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 641, in http_error_default raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp) urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py", line 636, in _real_extract webpage, urlh = self._download_webpage_handle( File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 667, in _download_webpage_handle urlh = self._request_webpage(url_or_request, video_id, note, errnote, fatal, data=data, headers=headers, query=query, expected_status=expected_status) File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 652, in _request_webpage raise ExtractorError(errmsg, sys.exc_info()[2], cause=err) youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by <HTTPError 403: 'Forbidden'>); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 815, in wrapper return func(self, *args, **kwargs) File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 836, in __extract_info ie_result = ie.extract(url) File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 534, in extract ie_result = self._real_extract(url) File "/home/tux/anaconda3/envs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py", line 643, in _real_extract raise ExtractorError( youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Cannot download embed-only video without embedding URL. Please call youtube-dl with the URL of the page that embeds this video.
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