Hey, is this still working? I tried the -user-agent string and I still get the original error you opened the ticket for. I have tried multiple private videos and found the same problem for all of them. If youre using a Mac, press Command + Option + U. In a separate tab, log into Facebook and go to the page of the video you want to download. Default format spec: bestvideo*+bestaudio/best To use FBDown to download private videos from Facebook, follow the step-by-step instructions below: Navigate to /private-downloader.php in your web browser. Be sure to call yt-dlp with the -verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version see on how to update. WARNING: unable to extract OpenGraph title please report this issue on. Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, res, quality, lang, fps, hdr:12(7), vcodec:vp9.2(10), acodec, filesize, fs_approx, tbr, vbr, abr, asr, proto, vext, aext, hasaud, source, id Sort order given by extractor: res, quality Here is an example successful output of running the same command on e978789, which is the parent of d76d15a: The first commit where downloads no longer work is d76d15a. I've run a git bisect to try and find the source of the issue, as I know this works fine in older versions of yt-dlp. Raise ExtractorError(msg, expected=True) DescriptionĪll videos which require a login on Facebook are failing to download for me on the latest version. Return self._extract_from_url(real_url, video_id)įile '/Users/charlie/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/facebook.py ', line 601, in _extract_from_urlįile '/Users/charlie/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py ', line 1089, in raise_login_required

Use -cookies, -username and -password, or -netrc to provide account credentialsįile '/Users/charlie/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py ', line 599, in extractįile '/Users/charlie/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/facebook.py ', line 721, in _real_extract exe versions: ffmpeg 4.4.1 (setts), ffprobe 4.4.1 Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, err utf-8, pref UTF-8

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