How to download private Vimeo videos 2019 [working method]

Data consumption through smartphones and computers is going through the roof. Be it cats and dogs video for entertainment, live news or sports, movies, online drama series or educational videos. There is something for each and everyone through the Nth videos available online.

Sometimes, however, we want to save a video to our iPad so that we can watch it again anytime we want without worrying about an internet connection. For example, a recipe video which I would want to refer continuously while making a dish should be consistently accessible to me. I don't want to lose access to it in between while making a dish due to a bad internet connection or losing the URL of the video.

Vimeo has some private videos which are accessible only after password authentication. You cannot download these videos directly from any browser except Safari since they are on RTMP protocol. Also, these videos are copyright protected and Vimeo has applied high levels of encryption, which make it difficult to be able to download private Vimeo videos. However, there are ways to bypass this protection and download private Vimeo videos through some tools.

Download Vimeo Private videos using iTube

1. Download and install iTube software from the link above. Launch the software and click on the 'Lock' icon located to activate the Private mode. You will be prompted to set a password for this private mode. You can choose some extra settings like making the private files hidden and thumbnails not visible.

2. Go to Vimeo and copy the URL of the page on which the video you want to download exists.

3. On the application click on the Paste URL button to start download of private Vimeo video. Click on the dropdown to download just the audio of the video in MP3 format or to add multiple URLs to download private Vimeo videos from.

The browser plugin of iTube lets you download videos directly from the web pages itself but it doesn't seem to work on Vimeo webpages. However, you can easily use it to download videos from YouTube. As soon as you use the download button the downloads start. You can keep adding multiple videos to download which will be downloaded in parallel.
4. You can go to the Downloaded tab of iTube to see the Vimeo private videos downloaded using iTube. While the Private mode is active in the software, the private Vimeo videos are not accessible from the folder where these videos are stored. To access them, you need to open the Downloaded tab, go to the Private List section, provide the password and then only you will be able to see the videos.