Download from Vimeo
Paste the link from your address bar and save it.
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.
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Paste it and press Start
The address is rewritten to the embed player before it is read — see below.
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Pick a height
Vimeo publishes a proper ladder, often up to 1080p.
What you can get
Vimeo’s own page turns anonymous readers away, while the player every site embeds serves the same video freely and at higher resolutions. So the address from your browser bar is rewritten to the player form before anything is fetched, and you never see that happen. Videos the owner has made private, or put behind a password or a purchase, stay out of reach.
Why the embed player, not the page
Vimeo’s own video page refuses anonymous readers outright — their web client only works when logged in. The embed player, which every site on the internet loads in an iframe, serves the same video freely and often at higher resolutions.
So a vimeo.com/123456789 address is rewritten to player.vimeo.com/video/123456789 before anything is fetched, and the result is checked against the permitted-sites list a second time so a rewrite can never move us off it.
What it will not read
Password-protected videos, private links and anything the uploader restricted to a domain. Vimeo is where people put work they control access to, and that control is real.
Frequently asked questions
Why did Vimeo used to fail here?
A regex delimiter bug: the pattern that rewrites the address used # as its delimiter with a # inside the pattern, which threw a 500 on every Vimeo link until it was switched to ~.
Do password-protected videos work?
No. The password is the point.
Is the quality the same as on Vimeo?
Often better — the embed player exposes renditions the page does not.