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youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Cannot parse data for Facebook video #26958

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GoMeister opened this issue Oct 21, 2020 · 12 comments
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youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Cannot parse data for Facebook video #26958

GoMeister opened this issue Oct 21, 2020 · 12 comments

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@GoMeister
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GoMeister commented Oct 21, 2020 •
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Checklist

  • I'm reporting a broken site support issue
  • I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.09.20
  • I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
  • I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
  • I've searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
  • I've read bugs section in FAQ

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eric@eric-Latitude-E5510:~/tmp$ youtube-dl --recode-video mkv -k https://www.facebook.com/alice.offley/videos/10164224184305084/ --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--recode-video', 'mkv', '-k', 'https://www.facebook.com/alice.offley/videos/10164224184305084/', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.09.20
[debug] Python version 3.8.5 (CPython) - Linux-5.4.0-52-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.29
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.4, ffprobe 4.2.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[facebook] 10164224184305084: Downloading webpage
[facebook] 10164224184305084: Downloading webpage
[facebook] 10164224184305084: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Cannot parse data; 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 "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 797, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 532, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py", line 482, in _real_extract
_, info_dict = self._extract_from_url(
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py", line 380, in _extract_from_url
raise ExtractorError('Cannot parse data')
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Cannot parse data; 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.

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youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Cannot parse data for Facebook video, url in log above.
@october262
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this link - https://www.facebook.com/alice.offley/videos/10164224184305084/
says content not available right now.

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GoMeister commented Oct 21, 2020 via email

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GoMeister commented Oct 21, 2020 via email

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still not playable for me. is the video a private video ??
if you can play the video click the 3 dots ... in the upper right hand
corner of the video and see if there's an option to download/copy the URL of the video.

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GoMeister commented Oct 21, 2020 via email

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try youtube-dl --force-generic-extractor URL
or youtube-dl --username (your user name) --password (your password) URL

@Mattwmaster58
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Wow, interestingly the generic extractor works just fine! Used --cookies to download a private video successfully.

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GoMeister commented Oct 22, 2020 via email

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GoMeister commented Oct 22, 2020 via email

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GoMeister commented Oct 22, 2020 via email

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@GoMeister I suspect the generic extractor won't work with --username and --password but haven't tried. I have also run into being forced to change my Facebook password when using the aforementioned options. I found success using --cookies to specify a cookies.txt file that I generated by logging into Facebook in a browser. I also used --add-header to add the UA of the browser I used to login but I'm unsure if that was necessary.

Interestingly, using --username + --password failed not using --force-default-extractor and made it so I had to change my facebook password. But if I used --add-header to specify a browser UA then I didn't have to change my facebook password.

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Nex4rius commented Nov 20, 2020 •
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I have another video that isn't working. I tried it with and without credentials and with the --force-generic-extractor and everything failed with the "cannot parse data" error
https://www.facebook.com/andrea.bondi.50/videos/4903472349693254

I tried --force-default-extractor but it says "error: no such option"

Another example:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/212288662233960/permalink/3233778396751623/
and alternative link to same video also fails:
https://www.facebook.com/jamini.de/videos/3281333008662998

ThirumalaiK pushed a commit to ThirumalaiK/youtube-dl that referenced this issue Jan 28, 2021
@remitamine @ThirumalaiK
[facebook] remove hardcoded chrome user-agent
2a7909c 
closes ytdl-org#18974
closes ytdl-org#25411
closes ytdl-org#26958
closes ytdl-org#27329
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