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Can't download my private Facebook video from my own account.
https://www.facebook.com/MacFanGirl/videos/1620191961412786/
This one also fails:
https://www.facebook.com/ForsageClubKiev/videos/1660213607360931/
It does not seem to be private, though. If I log in, both are playable in browser.
Or this one:
https://www.facebook.com/padraocarvalheira/videos/1607606815918150/
Running the latest version of youtube-dl - 2018.04.16
Please see the -v logs below:
-----VIDEO 1 Log: -----
youtube-dl -v --username mymail@mymail.com --password 123 https://www.facebook.com/MacFanGirl/videos/1620191961412786/
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'--username', u'PRIVATE', u'--password', u'PRIVATE', u'https://www.facebook.com/MacFanGirl/videos/1620191961412786/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.04.09
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 (CPython) - Darwin-16.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[facebook] Downloading login page
[facebook] Logging in
[facebook] 1620191961412786: Downloading webpage
[facebook] 1620191961412786: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Cannot parse data; 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 "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 789, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 440, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py", line 422, in _real_extract
video_id, fatal_if_no_video=True)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py", line 337, in _extract_from_url
raise ExtractorError('Cannot parse data')
ExtractorError: Cannot parse data; 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.
-----VIDEO 2 Log: -----
youtube-dl -v --username mymail@mail.com --password 123 https://www.facebook.com/ForsageClubKiev/videos/1660213607360931/
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'--username', u'PRIVATE', u'--password', u'PRIVATE', u'https://www.facebook.com/ForsageClubKiev/videos/1660213607360931/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.04.09
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 (CPython) - Darwin-16.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[facebook] Downloading login page
[facebook] Logging in
[facebook] 1660213607360931: Downloading webpage
[facebook] 1660213607360931: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Cannot parse data; 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 "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 789, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 440, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py", line 422, in _real_extract
video_id, fatal_if_no_video=True)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py", line 337, in _extract_from_url
raise ExtractorError('Cannot parse data')
ExtractorError: Cannot parse data; 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.