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Facebook (which seems to be supported?) fails with "Cannot parse data". #1658
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This presumably is because of privacy restrictions on that video: probably a good idea to have a "Can't read because I don't have permission" on it, I suppose. |
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Now, it reports the same message as Facebook: |
$ ./youtube-dl --verbose https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201581214466619
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201581214466619']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.10.23.2
[debug] Python version 2.7.5+ - Linux-3.12.0-rc3-Dan+-x86_64-with-debian-jessie-sid
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[facebook] 10201581214466619: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Cannot parse data; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 342, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 121, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py", line 96, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError(u'Cannot parse data')
ExtractorError: Cannot parse data; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.