facebook live video unsupported

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

$  youtube-dl -v https://zh-hk.facebook.com/peoplespower/videos/1135894589806027/
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://zh-hk.facebook.com/peoplespower/videos/1135894589806027/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.07.22
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.18.14-v7+-armv7l-with-debian-7.8
[debug] exe versions: avconv 9.14-6, avprobe 9.14-6
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 1135894589806027: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 1135894589806027: Downloading webpage
[generic] 1135894589806027: Extracting information
[redirect] Following redirect to https://zh-hk.facebook.com/peoplespower/videos/1135894589806027/?_fb_noscript=1
[generic] ?_fb_noscript=1: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] ?_fb_noscript=1: Downloading webpage
[generic] ?_fb_noscript=1: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://zh-hk.facebook.com/peoplespower/videos/1135894589806027/?_fb_noscript=1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1579, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2525, in compat_etree_fromstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2514, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1643, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1507, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: duplicate attribute: line 14, column 11458
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 682, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 347, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2303, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://zh-hk.facebook.com/peoplespower/videos/1135894589806027/?_fb_noscript=1

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Facebook Live Video : https://zh-hk.facebook.com/peoplespower/videos/1135894589806027/

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Attempted to download a facebook live video but youtube-dl reported it was unsupported. For example, the latest opera browser on android was able to download this (without addons) as is.