Get around vimeo's stupid daily download limit restrictions

README

Usage:

./vimeo.rb video-id [password] [output filename, no extension]

Known issues:

I should put some better arg handling in, if you download a video w/ password it will use the password as output filename.

vimeo.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'isolate'

Isolate.now! do
  gem 'mechanize'
end

require 'open-uri'
require 'mechanize'

class Vimeo
  def initialize(id, password=nil)
    @id = parse_id(id)
    @password = password
    @agent = Mechanize.new { |agent| agent.user_agent_alias = 'Mac Safari' }
  end

  def download_to(outfile=nil)
    outfile ||= "#{@id}.mp4"

    get_page
    get_video || get_video('sd')
    write_video(outfile)
  end

  def get_page
    @page ||= begin
      page = @agent.get(url)

      token = page.body.match(/token" value="(.*)" /)[1]
      Mechanize::Cookie.parse(URI.parse("http://www.vimeo.com/"), "xsrft=#{token};") do |c|
        @agent.cookie_jar.jar["vimeo.com"]["/"]["xsrft"] = c
      end

      if pass_form = page.form_with(:action => /password/)
        pass_form.pass = @password
        pass_form['token'] = token
        @agent.submit(pass_form)
      else
        page
      end
    end
  end

  def get_video(quality='hd')
    @video ||= begin
      sig = @page.body.match(/"signature":"([^"]+)",/)[1]
      time = @page.body.match(/"timestamp":([0-9]+),/)[1]

      url = "http://player.vimeo.com/play_redirect?clip_id=#{@id}&sig=#{sig}&time=#{time}&quality=#{quality}&codecs=H264,VP8,VP6&type=moogaloop_local&embed_location="

      content = @agent.get(url).body
      content if content.size > 5000
    end
  end

  def parse_id(id)
    id =~ /^http/ ? id.split('/').last : id
  end

  def url
    "http://www.vimeo.com/#{@id}"
  end

  def write_video(outfile)
    File.open(outfile, 'w') {|f| f << @video } if @video
  end 
end

v = Vimeo.new(ARGV.shift, ARGV.first)
file = ARGV.last ? ARGV.last+'.mp4' : nil
v.download_to(file)

This is great! Excuse my ignorance, but how do I use this??