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--get-title return the description of the video with Facebook #20687

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TaktakTaktouk opened this issue Apr 16, 2019 · 2 comments
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--get-title return the description of the video with Facebook #20687

TaktakTaktouk opened this issue Apr 16, 2019 · 2 comments

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@TaktakTaktouk
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@TaktakTaktouk TaktakTaktouk commented Apr 16, 2019

  • After the new updates of Facebook --get-title return the description of the video but not the title:

youtube-dl --get-title 'https://www.facebook.com/KeepVideo1/videos/268885554046939' -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--get-title', u'https://www.facebook.com/KeepVideo1/videos/268885554046939', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.04.07
[debug] Python version 2.7.9 (CPython) - Linux-2.6.32-042stab133.2-x86_64-with-debian-8.11
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.10-1, ffprobe 3.2.10-1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
The eventful life of a little blue car.

  • And --get-description return nothing:

youtube-dl --get-description 'https://www.facebook.com/KeepVideo1/videos/268885554046939' -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--get-description', u'https://www.facebook.com/KeepVideo1/videos/268885554046939', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.04.07
[debug] Python version 2.7.9 (CPython) - Linux-2.6.32-042stab133.2-x86_64-with-debian-8.11
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.10-1, ffprobe 3.2.10-1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best

Can you fix this, please?

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@dstftw dstftw commented Apr 16, 2019

@dstftw dstftw closed this Apr 16, 2019
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@TaktakTaktouk TaktakTaktouk commented Apr 16, 2019

@dstftw The video has a title and a description and I tested this with many Facebook videos and always the same issue. YouTube-dl is no longer able to extract title and description from Facebook.
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