Facebook videos ERROR: 404 Not Found

[andykennedyhope]

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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://www.facebook.com/facebook/videos/vl.515712155263726/10154651089866729/"    
[debug] System config: ['--no-cache-dir', '-o', '_%(extractor)s/%(uploader)s/%(upload_date)s_%(title)s_%(id)s.%(ext)s', '--restrict-filenames', '--yes-playlist', '-4', '--no-mtime', '--no-call-home', '-f', 'best']
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.facebook.com/facebook/videos/vl.515712155263726/10154651089866729/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.01.31
[debug] Python version 3.5.2 - Linux-4.4.0-42-generic-i686-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.10-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffprobe 2.8.10-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[facebook] 10154651089866729: Downloading webpage
[facebook] 10154651089866729: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by <HTTPError 404: 'Not Found'>); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 416, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 472, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 582, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 510, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 444, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 590, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

• This issue occurs with all facebook videos. (at least all the ones i tried 😒)
• Videos are still accessible from the web browser before/after i run the youtube-dl command.
• Same issue when using --ignore-config parameter.

[maferv]

What's going on? Facebook changing scripts? I'm using today's version (2017.01.31) and it isn't working here either. FWIW, GNU/Linux OS.

youtube-dl -v https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152588878600983
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152588878600983']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.01.31
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Linux-4.7.0-040700-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.10-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffprobe 2.8.10-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[facebook] 10152588878600983: Downloading webpage
[facebook] 10152588878600983: 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 416, 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/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 473, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 556, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

[ruyihaoren]

me too

[wanchihh]

All Facebook videos failed.

> youtube-dl.exe -v "https://www.facebook.com/ChannelNewsAsia/videos/10154311912022934/"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.facebook.com/ChannelNewsAsia/videos/10154311912022934/']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.01.31
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-74113-gcdb0225, ffprobe N-74113-gcdb0225
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[facebook] 10154311912022934: Downloading webpage
[facebook] 10154311912022934: 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 "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpluxhf9u1\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 416, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpluxhf9u1\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in urlopen
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 470, in open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 580, in http_response
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 508, in error
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 588, in http_error_default

[afarah1]

Same here.

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.facebook.com/NOVO30/videos/1265693613470125/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.01.31
[debug] Git HEAD: 2b2d5d3
[debug] Python version 3.4.5 - Linux-4.4.39-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q8400_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.3
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.2, ffprobe 3.2.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[facebook] 1265693613470125: Downloading webpage
[facebook] 1265693613470125: 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; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/home/afh/.bin/youtube-dl.git/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 416, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/home/afh/.bin/youtube-dl.git/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 470, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 580, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 508, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 588, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)