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facebook video: Cannot parse data; #12132

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sant527 opened this issue Feb 14, 2017 · 1 comment
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facebook video: Cannot parse data; #12132

sant527 opened this issue Feb 14, 2017 · 1 comment

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@sant527 sant527 commented Feb 14, 2017

I am trying to download a video from facebook. I tried the below command.

 % youtube-dl -v -F "https://www.facebook.com/BBCWalesNews/videos/1269641106435307/"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-F', 'https://www.facebook.com/BBCWalesNews/videos/1269641106435307/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.12.22
[debug] Python version 3.5.1 - Linux-4.6.2-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.0.2, ffprobe 3.0.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[facebook] 1269641106435307: Downloading webpage
[facebook] 1269641106435307: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Cannot parse data; 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.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 694, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 358, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py", line 343, in _real_extract
    video_id, fatal_if_no_video=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py", line 266, in _extract_from_url
    raise ExtractorError('Cannot parse data')
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Cannot parse data; 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.

It says cannot parse data. how to download it

@sant527 sant527 changed the title facebook video not downloading facebook video: Cannot parse data; Feb 14, 2017
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@dstftw dstftw commented Feb 14, 2017

Carefully read new issue template and provide all requested information.

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