How to download from Vimeo
Paste the address. We read the player, not the page.
By using this site you confirm you have the right to download the file you request.
How it works
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Copy the video address
vimeo.com/123456789 from the browser bar.
- 2
Paste it and press Start
The address is rewritten to player.vimeo.com before anything is fetched.
- 3
Pick a height
Vimeo publishes a proper ladder, often up to 1080p.
Why the embed player and not the page
Vimeo’s own video page refuses anonymous readers outright — their web client only works when you are signed in. The embed player, the thing every site on the internet loads in an iframe, serves the same video freely and frequently exposes higher resolutions than the page does.
So vimeo.com/123456789 becomes player.vimeo.com/video/123456789 before a single byte is fetched, and the rewritten address is checked against the permitted-sites list a second time so a rewrite rule can never move us somewhere it should not.
A bug this once caused
The rewrite is a regular expression, and the first version used # as its delimiter with a # inside the pattern. Every Vimeo link returned a 500 until the delimiter was changed to ~ — a one-character fix for a total outage on one platform.
Frequently asked questions
Do password-protected videos work?
No. The password is the point of them.
Is the quality the same as on Vimeo?
Often better — the embed player exposes renditions the page does not.
What about private links?
If it needs the link to be shared with you specifically, it cannot be read here.