- Text editor with regular expression support (optional but will save time) - Recommended:
Visual Studio Code - Browser with devtools - Recommended:
Chrome - Ability to expand(clicking 🔻) and copy an html element by the requirement-2.
- Go to the web page where the vimeo video is embedded.
- Right click on the video player and then click on inspect element.
- Expend the
iframehtml tag. - Expand
#document. - Copy the
htmlhtml tag inside the#documentelement and paste the text in the text editor. - Press Ctrl+F and paste
(?<=")https://vod-progressive.*?\.mp4(?=")|(?<=mp4.*)"quality":"\d+p"in the Find field. - Don't forget to enable
Regular Expression Searchafter the step-5. - The highlited text contains all the video quaities availabe to download.
- You can see the quality of a video link after the highlited link like
"quality":"720p". - You should also enable
Word Wrapin your text editor for convenience. - Copy any url and paste it. You can watch the video or download it.
- To download the video you have to
right clickon the video. - Click
Save video as...orCtrl+S. - Then Change the name (if needed).
- Choose the location.
- Click Save.
I've had a quick look. It looks like vimeo changed the structure of their JSON response in the video iframe. And they also switched to adaptive video format m4s. It will be tricky to download these manually. A script/tool has to be written for that.