unable to extract facebook video in private group, user with two-factor auth

[jakutis]

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=PRIVATE', '--username', u'PRIVATE', '--password', u'PRIVATE', '--twofactor', 'PRIVATE', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.01.25
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Linux-3.18.2-2-ARCH-x86_64-with-glibc2.2.5
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.5.2, ffprobe 2.5.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[facebook] Downloading login page
[facebook] Logging in
ERROR: Unable to extract h; 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 "/home/jakutis/.bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 613, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/home/jakutis/.bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 265, in extract
    self.initialize()
  File "/home/jakutis/.bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 260, in initialize
    self._real_initialize()
  File "/home/jakutis/.bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py", line 107, in _real_initialize
    self._login()
  File "/home/jakutis/.bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py", line 93, in _login
    r'name="h"\s+(?:\w+="[^"]+"\s+)*?value="([^"]+)"', login_results, 'h'),
  File "/home/jakutis/.bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 522, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract h; 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.

[mcepl]

Isn't this in fact duplicate of #1084 ?

[jakutis]

I don't know but maybe not, because my

[debug] Command-line args: ['https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=PRIVATE', '--username', u'PRIVATE', '--password', u'PRIVATE', '--twofactor', 'PRIVATE', '--verbose']

is different from his

[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151799802758653']

Also I end up with

RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract h; 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.

And he ends up with

ExtractorError: Cannot parse data; 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.

[jaimeMF]

The facebook extractor doesn't have support for twofactor authentication, it only supports login via username and password (which I guess it doesn't work if you have twofactor-auth enabled).

[jakutis]

Okey, then this should be labeled as a feature request.

[git-commit]

A workaround is using the --cookies option with your facebook cookie

[jackfuchs]

Still not implemented right?

[nathany]

The cookies.txt Chrome extension made it fairly easy.

[jakutis]

Thanks @git-commit and @nathany - just tried this and it is very easy!