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Error when downloading a video from vimeo

See original GitHub issue

Checklist

I’m reporting a broken site support issue
I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2021.03.03
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

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[debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Custom config: [] [debug] Command-line args: [u’https://vimeo.com/519959487/a8859b5ad5’, u’–verbose’] [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8 [debug] youtube-dl version 2021.03.03 [debug] Python version 2.7.18 (CPython) - Linux-5.4.0-66-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-20.04-focal [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.4, ffprobe 4.2.4, rtmpdump 2.4 [debug] Proxy map: {} [vimeo] 519959487: Downloading webpage [vimeo] 519959487: Extracting information ERROR: Unable to extract info section (caused by ValueError(‘Extra data: line 1 column 3 - line 1 column 104 (char 2 - 103)’,)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py”, line 665, in _real_extract config = json.loads(config) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/json/init.py”, line 339, in loads return _default_decoder.decode(s) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py”, line 367, in decode raise ValueError(errmsg(“Extra data”, s, end, len(s))) ValueError: Extra data: line 1 column 3 - line 1 column 104 (char 2 - 103) Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py”, line 806, in wrapper return func(self, *args, **kwargs) File “/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py”, line 827, in __extract_info ie_result = ie.extract(url) File “/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py”, line 532, in extract ie_result = self._real_extract(url) File “/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py”, line 678, in _real_extract cause=e) ExtractorError: Unable to extract info section (caused by ValueError(‘Extra data: line 1 column 3 - line 1 column 104 (char 2 - 103)’,)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.