The purpose of this software is to make backup copies of videos and the whole albums, channels or accounts of videos at http://Vimeo.com.

The crawler checks the specified URL and processes the specified video, album, channel or the whole account, trying to locate the highest available quality file for each video.

For every video found a file is downloaded to the target directory. For any channel or album encountered, a subfolder is created in the target directory, with file system hard links to the files in the target directory.

In default configuration, the program requires Mozilla Firefox.

The program starts a Firefox window and emulates clicks in it. Please don't touch that window, and don't minimize it. You may cover it with another window, if you wish. The window will be closed automatically after crawling is complete.

The program is best run on Linux. It also works fine on Windows, but Windows Vista or later is recommended, and NTFS file system. Otherwise the program would be unable to create file system hard links to files from channel and album subfolders.

Please don't hesitate to mail me at vmzakhar@gmail.com if you find a bug or have an idea of a feature or improvement. Thank you!

• sudo apt-get install firefox python-pip
• sudo pip install selenium urlgrabber requests

• Install Mozilla Firefox: http://mozilla.org
• Install the latest Python 2.x: http://python.org/download/ (use Windows x86 MSI Installer even on 64-bit systems)
• Install the latest PIP: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pip (use win32 version for your version of Python)
• Install the latest pycurl: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pycurl (use win32 version for your version of Python)
• (recommended) Add C:\Python2x\Scripts (check the actual path on your system) to your PATH.
• Run pip install selenium urlgrabber requests

• Right click and choose "Save Link As..." to download the latest version of VimeoCrawler.py: https://vimeo-crawler.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/VimeoCrawler.py
• Run python VimeoCrawler.py for further usage information

-- Moved from http://code.google.com/p/vimeo-crawler