How To Download Vimeo Private Videos?

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Are You Trying to Download A Private Video from Vimeo?

A slight difference from the YouTube platform is that Vimeo is more about content, creative design videos, and the absence of ads, with some videos requiring payment to watch. This means that the Vimeo platform is a higher bar and has a greater need for artistic videos.

Anyone who has used Vimeo can easily notice that many interesting videos do not have a "Download" button at the bottom, which means that they are private videos because the author has given the video to Vimeo to host and set its permissions to "not downloadable ".

So, how to download a Vimeo video? Are you looking for solutions to these problems when we want to watch Vimeo videos to pass the time in any environment without the internet? Vimeomate will provide you with three viable and safe downloading tips.

Two Ways to Download Vimeo Private Videos

Use Vimeomate.

Once you've searched for other Vimeo video download methods, you'll see that this method is the least laborious and fastest solution.

First, you can search for the keyword: "Vimeo downloader" in Google ...
... Chrome or the plug-in store of your Microsoft browser, or go to the plugin page on the Vimeomate website. You will get a lot of results, and you can notice that the first plugin called "Simple Vimeo Downloader" has 100,000+ users, so let's choose it.

3 Steps to Save Vimeo Video with Vimeomate【https://vimeomate.com/】：

Next, let's go to the tutorial: (Take Google Chrome as an example)

Step #1: Click Add or Get. Wait for it to successfully install into your browser.
Step #2: Open Vimeo Private Video and activate "Simple Vimeo Downloader" by clicking on the browser plug-in button.
Step #3: You have successfully embedded "Simple Vimeo Downloader" into your Vimeo private videos, please select any quality and download it.

Done! We easily downloaded the Vimeo private video in just three simple steps with guaranteed picture quality.

Using The Browser Developer Tool

1.Play a private Vimeo video, right-click in the margin of the page, find "Inspect" and click on it;

2.Click on the arrow at the top left of the development code page;

3.Move the mouse to a location that can contain the entire video, and the code for the video will be automatically located on the right side;

4.Look for the paragraph with "div id" and "data-config-url" and copy the link;

5.Paste the link into a new web page and you will get a large string of characters that you cannot read, copy it all down;

6.Open the JSON viewer website, paste the URL here, and click on "Format" at the top；

7.You will find that all the code is starting to get organized, press "control + F" or "command + F" for a quick keyword search, please search for "progressive" ;

8.At this point, you are positioned at a link to a video with different picture quality, slide down until you see "1080p" and copy the link to that area;

9.Re-open a web page, paste the link, you will find the video appears, click on the bottom right corner, click on "Download";

10.Finally! You made it.

This method will obviously take more time than the first method. Of course, you are perfectly entitled to choose the method you want to implement to download Vimeo videos.

Also, I mentioned other ways to extract a video from Vimeo in another blog.

Conclusion

There are many ways to download Vimeo videos for free, but please keep in mind that please do not reproduce, distribute or commercialize downloaded videos without the author's permission and that all videos downloaded by unofficial means are for offline viewing only.