youtube-dl consideres some Facebook URLs as generic

[geezee]

I'm running on 2014.08.27.1. If the Facebook URL is https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10204634152394104 then running youtube-dl has this output

WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] video: Requesting header
[generic] video: Downloading webpage
[generic] video: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL

If I change the URL to https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10204634152394104, notice the change from video.php to photo.php then it works and detects that the source is facebook.

Just wondering, is the extractor deciding the source based on the domain name or a pattern in the URL?

[Shudouken]

I've noticed this issue today as well.
Censored out the real link

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=xxxxxxxxxx']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.08.25.3
[debug] Python version 3.4.1 - Linux-3.16.1-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] video: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] video: Downloading webpage
[generic] video: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=xxxxxxxxxx; 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 "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 521, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 176, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 853, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError('Unsupported URL: %s' % url)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=xxxxxxxxxx; 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.

[Shudouken]

Also noticed that it doesn't work when you change video to photo but leave

&fref=nf

attached (some videos have that attached if they are shared)

[phihag]

Thank you for the report. I believe this issue to be fixed in youtube-dl 2014.08.28. Type youtube-dl -U to update.

@Shudouken It looks like you used a package manager to install youtube-dl. Use that to update.