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Facebook: Unable to extract single video id #26906
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Yep, i also replicated the same error. |
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play the video and click the three dots ... above right of the video and click "copy link" |
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Yes, working now. |
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Issue SOLVED. |
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Yes, that approach works for me too. Thank you. |
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Verbose log
$ youtube-dl -v https://web.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/posts/10165632688355725
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://web.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/posts/10165632688355725']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.09.20
[debug] Python version 3.5.3 (CPython) - Linux-4.9.0-3-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-9.4
[debug] exe versions: avconv 3.3.4, avprobe 3.3.4, ffmpeg 3.3.4, ffprobe 3.3.4, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[facebook] 10165632688355725: 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; 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/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 797, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 532, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py", line 479, in _real_extract
video_id = self._search_regex(r'video_id:\s*"([0-9]+)"', webpage, 'single video id')
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1010, in _search_regex
raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
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; 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.
Description
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I have downloaded many videos from Facebook with youtube-dl. Today, it failed with the error message provided in the output above.