Error with private FB video #4738

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opened 2026-02-21 00:23:30 -05:00 by deekerman · 3 comments

deekerman commented

2026-02-21 00:23:30 -05:00

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Originally created by @ghost on GitHub (May 19, 2015).

youtube-dl 'https://www.facebook.com/username/videos/123456789012345' -u user@user.com -p password --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://www.facebook.com/username/videos/1234567890123456', u'-u', u'PRIVATE', u'-p', u'PRIVATE', u'--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.05.10
[debug] Python version 2.7.2 - Darwin-12.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.5, ffprobe 2.5
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[facebook] Downloading login page
[facebook] Logging in
ERROR: Unable to extract h; 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 650, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 272, in extract
self.initialize()
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 266, in initialize
self._real_initialize()
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py", line 117, in _real_initialize
self._login()
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py", line 103, in _login
r'name="h"\s+(?:\w+="[^"]+"\s+)*?value="([^"]+)"', login_results, 'h'),
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 555, in _search_regex
raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract h; 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.

Originally created by @ghost on GitHub (May 19, 2015). youtube-dl 'https://www.facebook.com/username/videos/123456789012345' -u user@user.com -p password --verbose [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Command-line args: [u'https://www.facebook.com/username/videos/1234567890123456', u'-u', u'PRIVATE', u'-p', u'PRIVATE', u'--verbose'] [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8 [debug] youtube-dl version 2015.05.10 [debug] Python version 2.7.2 - Darwin-12.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.5, ffprobe 2.5 [debug] Proxy map: {} [facebook] Downloading login page [facebook] Logging in ERROR: Unable to extract h; 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 650, in extract_info ie_result = ie.extract(url) File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 272, in extract self.initialize() File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 266, in initialize self._real_initialize() File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py", line 117, in _real_initialize self._login() File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py", line 103, in _login r'name="h"\s+(?:\w+="[^"]+"\s+)*?value="([^"]+)"', login_results, 'h'), File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 555, in _search_regex raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name) RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract h; 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.