Support downloading all videos from a Facebook page

[dreamflasher]

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Example URLs

https://www.facebook.com/dieanstalt.kabarettarchiv/videos (lists all videos of a facebook page)
https://www.facebook.com/watch/1104963652946528/264543514160928 (a playlist)

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For YouTube it's possible to download a whole channel or a single playlist. It would be great if for Facebook Pages the same would be supported: Download all videos of a facebook page and download a full playlist of a facebook page.

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

[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'https://www.facebook.com/dieanstalt.kabarettarchiv/videos']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version stable@2023.03.04 [392389b7d] (win_exe)
[debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.22621-SP0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1k  25 Mar 2021)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 6.0-essentials_build-www.gyan.dev (setts), ffprobe 6.0-essentials_build-www.gyan.dev
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.17, brotli-1.0.9, certifi-2022.12.07, mutagen-1.46.0, sqlite3-2.6.0, websockets-10.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Loaded 1786 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
Available version: stable@2023.03.04, Current version: stable@2023.03.04
Current Build Hash: 5590c57bd0433ed239a2deaaf92e2ad6f37fe50f53664c821575cafe106a9421
yt-dlp is up to date (stable@2023.03.04)
[generic] Extracting URL: https://www.facebook.com/dieanstalt.kabarettarchiv/videos
[generic] videos: Downloading webpage
WARNING: [generic] Falling back on generic information extractor
[generic] videos: Extracting information
[debug] Looking for embeds
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.facebook.com/dieanstalt.kabarettarchiv/videos
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1518, in wrapper
  File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1594, in __extract_info
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 694, in extract
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\generic.py", line 2510, in _real_extract
yt_dlp.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.facebook.com/dieanstalt.kabarettarchiv/videos

[ministerinmarin]

and can you add the same thing/feature for all videos on a youtube channel ? like you paste only the channel link and it will download all videos.... or maybe needs a Gui for that feature and then you could select/tick the needed videos with a mouse?

Actually, you can download a whole YouTube channel with available listed videos by simply running yt-dlp in your command prompt.

ytdlp https://www.youtube.com/channel/[channel_id] and you can insert additional commands from the prompt.

[ministerinmarin]

@dreamflasher I would support having a manner of downloading all the videos, or a playlist of videos, from a Facebook page (personal profiles would work differently though) just like downloading a YouTube channel's set of videos. However, has Facebook attempted to thwart requests from users to download videos with their API via yt-dlp?

[dreamflasher]

Afaik they do, but not in this case: for the linked page you do not need to be logged in, it's a public page and you can access all videos without authentication.
So I believe this is allowed according to yt-dlp rules?

[dreamflasher]

@pukkandan would you be down for adding support for facebook pages and playlists?

I tried to understand how it's done for youtube channels and playlists, but didn't understand it well enough to make a PR myself: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py#L6379

[gosuimbalyndh]

@pukkandan would you be down for adding support for facebook pages and playlists?

I tried to understand how it's done for youtube channels and playlists, but didn't understand it well enough to make a PR myself: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py#L6379

Thank you much
I don't quite understand: how to download Facebook story? I try the method here but not working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtFmeJQ5Jlg

For instances the URL of stories video: https://www.facebook.com/stories/1052288...xxxx
Can we download that?