vimeo-downloader

A Ruby script for downloading a backup of your published Vimeo videos, suitable for re-uploading to another video service provider.

The first time you run it, it will download all your video metadata and output to a CSV file. If that looks good, run the script again passing the --download flag to actually start downloading.

Setup

1. Install dependencies (bundle install). The script uses youtube-dl to do the heavy lifting, so you'll also need that (brew install youtube-dl).

2. Generate an access token for your Vimeo account (https://developer.vimeo.com). You can either store this in an .auth_token file in the project directory or supply it as a command line argument to the script (see below).

Usage

Run vimeo-downloader.rb, supplying your all the required credentials: the auth token for your vimeo account, vimeo account username, email, and password (required for logging in to download original video files):

ruby vimeo-downloader.rb \
  --auth-token abc123 \
  --username epicsf \
  --email [email protected] \
  --password yoursecretpassword

You can optionally supply the auth token value in a file named .auth_token and the Vimeo account username/password in a .netrc file (see instructions for youtube-dl.)

Here are all the available options or flags you can set:

Usage: vimeo-downloader [options]
    -a, --auth-token TOKEN           Vimeo account auth token
    -u, --username NAME              Vimeo account username
    -e, --email EMAIL                Vimeo account email (or supply in .netrc)
    -p, --password PASSWORD          Vimeo account password (or supply in .netrc)
    -l, --limit COUNT                Fetch count limit (for testing)
    -d, --download                   Download video files
    -o, --output PATH                Path for output files