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--resolve not working? #37
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I'm not able to reproduce your issue. What operating system and Python version are you using? |
Windows 10 and Python 3.5.2. |
I'll try to investigate, but it'll take a while given that I don't really have any Windows machines/VMs on hand. |
I believe I've fixed the issue under Windows. Please try version |
Thanks for the quick patch, appreciate the effort. The password prompt now appears but the next issue is that it freezes after entering my credentials. I thought maybe it had to do with my 2FA or Code Generator being enabled but no cigar even after disabling those security features.
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Does this happen even when not redirecting to a file? |
Yeah, it still freezes after entering credentials with or without redirecting to file. I added some print statements in main.py: sys.stderr.write("Facebook password: ")
print('a')
sys.stderr.flush()
print('b')
password = getpass.getpass("")
print('c')
name_resolver = FacebookNameResolver(email, password)
print('d') and
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Hmm, I fixed that issue by manually writing the prompt to When you get to that line, you're supposed to copy-paste/type your password and hit enter in the terminal. Is it still freezing even after doing that? |
Yeah, my cursor just blinks on the next line after entering password. And actually, my password is echoed back in terminal which doesn't seem right.
What displays after I end process:
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Ah, thanks for trying that out 👍 I'll look further into it later to see if I can get Yeah, unfortunately there isn't an easy way around that. I listed the The "proper" way of doing this would be to create a Facebook app and authorize it to access your friends list. That's a lot more work and much more annoying for the end user. I was hoping the hacky |
No problem and all in all thanks for the quick responses. I'll be sure to give this program another go if/when you find the workaround. Great tool! |
Super old now, but I think I was able to resolve this issue recently by doing the password prompting via a third-party library instead. Not sure if the |
Yep, I just downloaded an updated version of my Facebook data and the full names were there for me as well. I didn't try using the |
--resolve seems to get stuck after entering your email. The password prompt ("Facebook password:") does not display at all and I'm forced to end the process.
What I'm trying to do is "fbcap ./messages.htm -f json --resolve > messages.json" and I'm on version 0.9.post3.
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