Facebook Download Is No More Working

[mtalhaakram]

Hello,
Facebook download is no more working, seems like they have updated mechanism at their end. Please advise if there is any fix available for it so far or not.

Thanks & Regards,
Talha

[yan12125]

It still works, at least for https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=637842556329505&fref=nf. Please post the full verbose output with -v option

[warnecke]

It looks like Facebook is publishing video content using a new URL format...instead of linking to the https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=[VIDEO-ID] videos are now linked as https://www.facebook.com/[USERNAME]/videos/[VIDEO-ID].

Here's the verbose as requested:

09:59:30 user@system:~/tmp$ youtube-dl -v http://www.facebook.com/gary/videos/10153163439258350/
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.facebook.com/gary/videos/10153163439258350/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.04.17
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Linux-3.16.0-34-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.10-utopic
[debug] exe versions: rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 10153163439258350: Requesting header
[redirect] Following redirect to https://www.facebook.com/gary/videos/10153163439258350/
[generic] 10153163439258350: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 10153163439258350: Downloading webpage
[generic] 10153163439258350: Extracting information
[redirect] Following redirect to /gary/videos/10153163439258350/?_fb_noscript=1
WARNING: The url doesn't specify the protocol, trying with http
[generic] ?_fb_noscript=1: Requesting header
WARNING: Could not send HEAD request to http:///gary/videos/10153163439258350/?_fb_noscript=1:
[generic] ?_fb_noscript=1: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: (caused by URLError('no host given',))
File "/home/user/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 314, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/home/user/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1678, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 404, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 422, in _open
'_open', req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/home/user/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 613, in http_open
req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1136, in do_open
raise URLError('no host given')

Cheers, /b

[yan12125]

Yes, and I've fixed it in c625669 and 53faa3c. Such urls can be downloaded in the next version of youtube-dl. If you need the feature now, you can try the lastest git commit or use the old URL format https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153163439258350

@mtalhaakram, did you encounter the same problem?

[mtalhaakram]

Yes as the new URL format I can see is:

https://www.facebook.com/Zubi.FunZone/videos/vb.207462935964291/917594151617829/?type=2&theater

but when I am trying manually to change the URL from :

https://www.facebook.com/Zubi.FunZone/videos/vb.207462935964291/917594151617829/?type=2&theater

to

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=917594151617829

it worked fine but not with the new URL format.

[warnecke]

Thanks for the quick fix, @yan12125!

Cheers, /b

[yan12125]

@mtalhaakram, all of the three above URL formats are supported since 53faa3c. Please wait patiently for the new version or try the latest git commit. If you have pip or pip.exe, you can try the following command to install the latest git version: (Warning: the following step may cause conflicts between the stable version and the git version)

pip install --user git+https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/

Now I'm closing this issue because it's already solved.

[mtalhaakram]

Thanks @yan12125