Update (2010-11-30): I’ve replaced Vimeo Downloader 0.3.0 with version 0.3.1, which removes the caption from the filename. As pointed out by Mikko, the caption is not guaranteed to contain characters suitable for a filename. I may add the caption option back when I’m confident we have an exhaustive list of suitable filename characters, but for now you can uncomment the FILENAME= line I disabled if you know the caption for your video will work in a filename.
I’ve updated Vimeo Downloader to include Jorge’s changes as well some other minor enhancements:
Here is the complete list of changes:
- download HD version if available (from Jorge)
- use caption as part of file name (from Jorge) – disabled for now; see above
- output the type of video that has been downloaded (from Jorge)
- accept either a Vimeo URL in addition to the Vimeo ID
- revert to basic version if
perlis unavailable
To download a Vimeo video (ie. http://vimeo.com/1084537) with Vimeo Downloader, do the following from a terminal window:
./vimeo_downloader.sh http://vimeo.com/1084537
Vimeo Downloader can also use just the ID (this is how the old version worked):
./vimeo_downloader.sh 1084537
After downloading, you will probably have to make the Vimeo Downloader script executable before running it:
chmod u+x ./vimeo_downloader.sh
Vimeo Downloader should work on any POSIX system, including Ubuntu, Mac OS X, or Windows with MSYS. For more details, including how and why I created it, see my original post, Vimeo Downloader 0.1 released.
Thanks to Jorge for the major new features in this release (see Jorge’s comment for the original version).
