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Particular Vimeo video is not downloading

See original GitHub issue

Checklist

I’m reporting a broken site support issue
I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2021.07.07
I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
I’ve read bugs section in FAQ

Verbose log

yt-dlp -v https://vimeo.com/179477968
[debug] Command-line config: ['-v', 'https://vimeo.com/179477968']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] yt-dlp version 2021.07.07 
[debug] Python version 3.7.3 (CPython 64bit) - Linux-4.17.0-041700-generic-x86_64-with-debian-buster-sid
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.8, ffprobe 3.4.8, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] [vimeo] Extracting URL: https://vimeo.com/179477968
[vimeo] 179477968: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 179477968: Extracting information
ERROR: Unable to extract info section (caused by JSONDecodeError('Extra data: line 1 column 3 (char 2)')); please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp  on how to update. Be sure to call yt-dlp with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/vimeo.py", line 725, in _real_extract
    webpage, 'page config'), video_id)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 1123, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
yt_dlp.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract page config; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp  on how to update. Be sure to call yt-dlp with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/vimeo.py", line 746, in _real_extract
    config = json.loads(config)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/json/__init__.py", line 348, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/json/decoder.py", line 340, in decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Extra data", s, end)
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Extra data: line 1 column 3 (char 2)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/vimeo.py", line 725, in _real_extract
    webpage, 'page config'), video_id)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 1123, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
yt_dlp.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract page config; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp  on how to update. Be sure to call yt-dlp with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/vimeo.py", line 746, in _real_extract
    config = json.loads(config)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/json/__init__.py", line 348, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/json/decoder.py", line 340, in decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Extra data", s, end)
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Extra data: line 1 column 3 (char 2)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1142, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1167, in __extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 569, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/vimeo.py", line 762, in _real_extract
    cause=e)
yt_dlp.utils.ExtractorError: Unable to extract info section (caused by JSONDecodeError('Extra data: line 1 column 3 (char 2)')); please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp  on how to update. Be sure to call yt-dlp with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.