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Madhav Nikam
Asked: 2015-05-23 11:52:41 +0800 CST

How to download facebook videos by using 'youtube-dl' in linux?

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I am unable to download Facebook video using youtube-dl. The following error occurs during downloading:

$ youtube-dl https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152588878600983&set=vb.107925785982&type=2&theater
[1] 5101
[2] 5102
[3] 5103
theater: command not found
[2]-  Done                    set=vb.107925785982
[3]+  Done                    type=2
[2]-  Done                    set=vb.107925785982
[3]+  Done                    type=2
$ [generic] video: Requesting header

$ WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] video: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 8] _ssl.c:510: EOF occurred in violation of protocol>

[1]+  Exit 1                  youtube-dl
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152588878600983
command-line

6 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    When using youtube-dl try to clean up the URL you use. For example, the following URL will work. Thanks for the video ^_~.

    How did you install youtube-dl? If you installed it through apt, I would recommend the following:

    sudo apt-get remove youtube-dl
sudo apt-get install $(apt-cache depends youtube-dl | grep Depends | sed "s/.*ends:\ //" | tr '\n' ' ')
sudo pip install youtube-dl

    pip seems to have a more up-to-date version.

    Some characters need to be escaped to prevent issues. You can single-quote your URL to help prevent these issues:

    • youtube-dl 'https://domain.tld/path/file.ext'
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  2. You have to escape ampersands (&) or put the whole URL in quotes since ampersand is one of the special characters that's interpreted by your shell and prevents you from passing the whole URL to youtube-dl. More on this. So just putting it in single quotes will suffice:

    youtube-dl 'https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152588878600983&set=vb.107925785982&type=2&theater'
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    1. right click on the video > click on "show the video URL" > copy the URL there come (NOT the URL of the facebook page).

    2. Then, paste the URL copied on the terminal next to 'youtube-dl'

      Ex.: youtube-dl https://www.facebook.com/Amhara-Mass-Media-Agency-118697174971952/

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  4. This worked in my Linux Mint 18.3-cinammon maybe it could work in yours.You can download video in facebook using youtube-dl by appending Facebook username and password as shown below:

    youtube-dl <url> --username <YOUR_USERNAME> --password <YOUR_PASSWORD>

    I hope this help. Thank you.

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  5. youtube-dl --username xxxxx --password xxxxx -t -f mp4 'https://www.facebook.com/xxxxx/videos/123456789'
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  6. I try download these video through wine+Youtube-dl and its working. I my case I was install YouTube-dl by Ubuntu software center. Now my software center is not work. Therefore I am unable to Update YouTube-dl through Terminal. Updated version of YouTube-dl may solve that issue. wine+youtube-dl Step1:- first install and configure wine.
    Step2:- download youtube-dl.exe 2016.01.15
    step3:- copy youtube-dl.exe in to /home/youru_username/.wine/drive_c/folder_for_youtube-dl
    enter image description here step4:- open cmd.exe from /home/madhavnikam/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32
    enter image description here
    Note:- youtube-dl is a folder in which youtube-dl.exe file is copied.
    step5:- type cd\ in cmd and set path like c:\youtube-dl\
    enter image description here More Info 1)How to install Wine in Ubuntu.
    2)youtube-dl exe version download and copy to C_drive folder of .wine folder.

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