Unable to download facebook video

[markanthonyuy]

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
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I got this error message while trying to download an facebook video that appeared in my timeline. (The video is set on public): youtube-dl https://www.facebook.com/thebuzz.nba/videos/1042682435839199/ --verbose

I'm also using the new ubuntu bash in windows.

Error message: Unable to download webpage: The read operation timed out (caused by SSLError('The read operation timed out',)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug

The current version is I'm using is 2016.05.21.2

--verbose output:

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://www.facebook.com/thebuzz.nba/videos/1042682435839199/', u'--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.05.21.2
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.4.0+-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[facebook] 1042682435839199: Downloading webpage
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 388, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1946, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 831, in http_response
    content = resp.read()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 351, in read
    data = self._sock.recv(rbufsize)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 573, in read
    s = self.fp.read(amt)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 380, in read
    data = self._sock.recv(left)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 341, in recv
    return self.read(buflen)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 260, in read
    return self._sslobj.read(len)

[yan12125]

AFAIK Ubuntu on Windows is not so stable yet. Could you try directly in Windows?

[yan12125]

Closing as no response for a long time.