rg3/youtube-dl — Issue #224: Fails to get Vimeo video info
Author: nodeGarden
Created: 2011-11-23 02:30:19+00:00
State: open

**youtube-dl -U**
Updating to latest version...
youtube-dl is up-to-date (2011.11.22)

**youtube-dl http://vimeo.com/5662331**

[vimeo] 5662331: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 5662331: Extracting information
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 4186, in
main()
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 4177, in main
_real_main()
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 4164, in _real_main
retcode = fd.download(all_urls)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 815, in download
ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 1073, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 2017, in _real_extract
simple_title = _simple_title(video_title)
**NameError: global name '_simple_title' is not defined**

Tried multiple Vimeo URLs and all the same

Running on Amazon EC2 with: **ebs/ubuntu-images/ubuntu-natty-11.04-i386-server-20111003**
Youtube URL's work with no problem

**youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG8UAHIuHeI&feature=feedrec_grec_index**
[1] 19508
root@domU-12-31-39-09-88-BE:/home/ubuntu# [youtube] Setting language
[youtube] iG8UAHIuHeI: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] iG8UAHIuHeI: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] iG8UAHIuHeI: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: iG8UAHIuHeI.mp4
[download] 100.0% of 4.27M at 29.07M/s ETA 00:00

**ls -l**
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 4472446 2011-02-14 13:44 iG8UAHIuHeI.mp4

When I run it in my OSX Terminal locally with the previous version it works fine for Vimeo. Once I ran **youtube-dl -U** on the mac, then it fails the same way. Is there a way to downgrade?