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Unable to download a Facebook's video. #11951
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I had the same issue, around the same time. It went away after I updated my youtube-dl to the latest version. |
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Hmm, I already have the latest: |
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Duplicate of #11017 |
$ youtube-dl -v https://www.facebook.com/BlueManGroupFans/posts/1439219159445373
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.facebook.com/BlueManGroupFans/posts/1439219159445373']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.02.01
[debug] Python version 3.4.2 - Linux-3.16.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-8.7
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.2-1, ffprobe 3.2.2-1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[facebook] 1439219159445373: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract video ids; 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.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/ant/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 694, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/home/ant/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 369, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/home/ant/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py", line 354, in _real_extract
webpage, 'video ids', group='ids'),
File "/home/ant/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 672, in _search_regex
raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract video ids; 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.
Thank you in advance. :)