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Error when downloading Facebook video #26417

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savaii opened this issue Aug 23, 2020 · 1 comment
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Error when downloading Facebook video #26417

savaii opened this issue Aug 23, 2020 · 1 comment

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@savaii savaii commented Aug 23, 2020

C:\Users\User\Downloads>"youtube-dl (1).exe" https://www.facebook.com/famhisae.saulaulusavaiinaea/posts/2701399750119689 --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://www.facebook.com/famhisae.saulaulusavaiinaea/posts/2701399750119689', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.07.28
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.18362
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[facebook] 2701399750119689: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract single video id; 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 "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpq2whuxta\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 797, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpq2whuxta\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 530, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpq2whuxta\build\youtube_dl\extractor\facebook.py", line 479, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpq2whuxta\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 1005, in _search_regex
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract single video id; 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.
@savaii savaii closed this Aug 23, 2020
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@savaii savaii commented Aug 23, 2020

Closing this issue. The link I was trying to download was the not the original source i.e. someone I know was sharing another user's video. I tried again using the original link and it worked fine.

Thank you.

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