How to Download Password-Protected Vimeo Videos That Are Not Embedded

Learn how to handle password-protected Vimeo videos from direct Vimeo pages without relying on embedded players.

Mr Video Downloader
1 min read
vimeo
download
password protected
privacy
tutorial
  • Example: https://vimeo.com/1100807276

Steps

  1. visit page & enter the password
  2. find your chrome profile number
  3. construct the correct command

1. visit page & enter the password

Go to the Vimeo URL & enter the password.

2. find your chrome profile number

  1. visit chrome://profile-internals/
  2. expand your profile & grab the number
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3. construct the correct command

You will need:

  1. https://vimeo.com/{VIDEO_ID}
  2. chrome profile number
  3. password

Your command syntax:

yt-dlp \
  'https://vimeo.com/{VIDEO_ID}' \
  --cookies-from-browser "chrome:Profile {NUMBER}" \
  --video-password '{PASSWORD}' \
  -N 20 \
  -S 'codec:avc,res,ext' \
  --merge-output-format mp4 \
  --remux-video mp4 \
  --postprocessor-args "ffmpeg:-movflags +faststart"

et voila!

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it hath downloaded

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