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Unable to find title in FB download #3299
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You are running a one year old version, how did you download the master branch? It works fine in the last versions. You'll need to upgrade, there are different options:
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It turns out that "git pull" was insufficient because the youtube-dl binary updates itself. Running "git status" showed that it had been modified. I did a "git checkout youtube-dl" to reset to the baseline to master, then ran it again which modified the binary ("git status" shows that it's modified again). Once I performed those steps to rebuild the "youtube-dl" binary, it all works as expected. Thanks. |
Running from the latest master branch of the github code. It's a public FB video but ytdl seems to have problems finding the title:
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '--prefer-free-formats', 'https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=835317159813312']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.08.09
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.2.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-7.6
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[facebook] 835317159813312: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract title; 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.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/tim/bin/downloads/youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 312, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/home/tim/bin/downloads/youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 96, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/home/tim/bin/downloads/youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py", line 110, in _real_extract
webpage, u'title')
File "/home/tim/bin/downloads/youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 230, in _html_search_regex
res = self._search_regex(pattern, string, name, default, fatal, flags)
File "/home/tim/bin/downloads/youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 220, in _search_regex
raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract %s' % _name)
ExtractorError: Unable to extract title; 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.