Facebook IE broke again

[csabahenk]

The issue reported in #198 occurs again.

$ youtube-dl https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=207446242657384
[facebook] 207446242657384: Downloading video webpage
[facebook] 207446242657384: Extracting video information
ERROR: unable to extract uploader nickname

Can be seen with d4e16d3.

[cellux]

With the following patch, I managed to download the video I wanted from FB:

diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
index 8d428b2..61f81c3 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
@@ -1843,10 +1843,10 @@ class FacebookIE(InfoExtractor):
        def _parse_page(self, video_webpage):
                """Extract video information from page"""
                # General data
-               data = {'title': r'\("video_title", "(.*?)"\)',
-                       'description': r'<div class="datawrap">(.*?)</div>',
-                       'owner': r'\("video_owner_name", "(.*?)"\)',
-                       'thumbnail':  r'\("thumb_url", "(?P<THUMB>.*?)"\)',
+               data = {'title': r'\["video_title",\s*"(.*?)"\]',
+                       'description': r'\["video_title",\s*"(.*?)"\]',
+                       'owner': r'\["video_owner_name",\s*"(.*?)"\]',
+                       'thumbnail':  r'\["thumb_url",\s*"(?P<THUMB>.*?)"\]',
                        }
                video_info = {}
                for piece in data.keys():
@@ -1857,7 +1857,7 @@ class FacebookIE(InfoExtractor):
                # Video urls
                video_urls = {}
                for fmt in self._available_formats:
-                       mobj = re.search(r'\("%s_src\", "(.+?)"\)' % fmt, video_webpage)
+                       mobj = re.search(r'\["%s_src\",\s*"(.+?)"\]' % fmt, video_webpage)
                        if mobj is not None:
                                # URL is in a Javascript segment inside an escaped Unicode format within
                                # the generally utf-8 page

Don't forget to make youtube-dl after applying the patch.

[phihag]

I'll have a look at it. Another demo URL: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=120708114770723

[phihag]

Should be fixed now. Thanks for reporting!