[vimeo] thumbnails not loading

[someziggyman]

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downloads seem to be working just fine on Vimeo, but it's impossible to get thumbnails to load. Also, while downloading or listing formats there's a warning saying WARNING: Failed to parse XML: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 0
Tried many links with same result.

https://vimeo.com/226958858
https://vimeo.com/246621397

Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem

• Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (yt-dlp -vU <your command line>)
• If using API, add 'verbose': True to YoutubeDL params instead
• Copy the WHOLE output (starting with [debug] Command-line config) and insert it below

Complete Verbose Output

./yt-dlp -vU --list-thumbnails https://vimeo.com/226958858
[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', '--list-thumbnails', 'https://vimeo.com/226958858']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp [65cf46cdd] (zip)
[debug] Python 3.12.2 (CPython arm64 64bit) - macOS-15.2-arm64-arm-64bit (OpenSSL 3.0.13 30 Jan 2024)
[debug] exe versions: phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.20.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2024.07.04, curl_cffi-0.7.1, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.3, sqlite3-3.45.1, urllib3-2.2.2, websockets-12.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, curl_cffi
[debug] Extractor Plugins: SamplePluginIE
[debug] Post-Processor Plugins: SamplePluginPP
[debug] Loaded 1838 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
Latest version: [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
yt-dlp is up to date ([email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp)
[vimeo] Extracting URL: https://vimeo.com/226958858
[vimeo] 226958858: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 226958858: Downloading viewer info
[vimeo] 226958858: Downloading API JSON
[vimeo] 226958858: Downloading JSON metadata
[vimeo] 226958858: Downloading akfire_interconnect_quic m3u8 information
[vimeo] 226958858: Downloading fastly_skyfire m3u8 information
[vimeo] 226958858: Downloading akfire_interconnect_quic MPD information
WARNING: [vimeo] 226958858: Failed to parse XML: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 0
[vimeo] 226958858: Downloading fastly_skyfire MPD information
WARNING: [vimeo] 226958858: Failed to parse XML: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 0
[debug] Sort order given by extractor: quality, res, fps, hdr:12, source
[debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, quality, res, fps, hdr:12(7), source, lang, vcodec, channels, acodec, size, br, asr, proto, vext, aext, hasaud, id
226958858 has no thumbnails

[dirkf]

For the "also" part, see #10370.

[bashonly]

XML warning is tracked in #10370

Renaming this issue to focus solely on the thumbnails