youtube-dl: Can't download video on Facebook

pierre@Rudloff:~/Bureau/youtube-dl$ ./youtube-dl https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1726498360960
[facebook] 1726498360960: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Cannot parse data; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.
pierre@Rudloff:~/Bureau/youtube-dl$ ./youtube-dl https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1726498360960 -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1726498360960', '-v']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.08.17
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.2.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-7.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[facebook] 1726498360960: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Cannot parse data; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 312, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 96, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py", line 96, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError(u'Cannot parse data')
ExtractorError: Cannot parse data; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.

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  • State: closed
  • Created 11 years ago
  • Comments: 20 (11 by maintainers)

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Does it work if you add --username Rudloff@example.com --password secret (replace with your facebook credentials) to the command line?