Downloading Facebook videos return "Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 404"

[kalemi19]

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.facebook.com/peopleareawesome/videos/1214770915238751/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.01.25
[debug] Python version 2.6.6 - Linux-2.6.32-042stab104.1-x86_64-with-centos-6.8-Final
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-77953-gcc83177-syslint
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[facebook] 1214770915238751: Downloading webpage
[facebook] 1214770915238751: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 406, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 397, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 510, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 435, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 369, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 518, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I don't know when this started happening. I tried downloading tons of Facebook videos and the result is the same: 404 error. The Facebook video url used in the example (logs) above is this https://www.facebook.com/peopleareawesome/videos/1214770915238751/

The video is public and can be downloaded from other sites online. Other sites that I tried work normally (YouTube, Instagram etc)

Thanks in advance

[kalemi19]

Any thoughts? It works on my local machine, but not on my VPS. I haven't changed anything and it was working fine until now. As I said, other sites work just fine.

Thanks.

[dstftw]

Can you watch it in browser from your VPS's IP in the first place?

[kalemi19]

How do I do that? I did a wget and it looks fine

--2017-01-27 09:29:10-- https://www.facebook.com/peopleareawesome/videos/1214770915238751/
Resolving www.facebook.com... 31.13.66.36, 2a03:2880:f113:83:face:b00c:0:25de
Connecting to www.facebook.com|31.13.66.36|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser [following]
--2017-01-27 09:29:10-- https://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser
Reusing existing connection to www.facebook.com:443.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

[dstftw]

Setup proxy, VPN, SSH tunnel or whatever.
In any case your VPS is most likely blocked by Facebook and it's not an youtube-dl issue.

[kalemi19]

So I did turn my VPN into a proxy and I was able to browse Facebook normally and everything. Just to make sure the proxy was working I went to Facebook's security settings and I saw the current active session had the IP of my VPS.

I will keep looking. Thanks for your help.

[kalemi19]

It's working now. I guess it fixed itself (?)