I use youtube-dl to download Facebook videos by passing the video URL. When Facebook plays a video, it shows a list of videos that play next. Is it possible to use youtube-dl to download all these videos automatically?
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At the moment you can't.
The 'official' playlist on facebook is created by owner of the videos (see the playlist section at FACEBOOK/facebook/videos for example) and they can choose to share it as a link, however there is no listed format.
The videos in the same playlist might have the same prefix in URL
FACEBOOK/facebook/videos/vl.515712155263726/10154651089866729/
FACEBOOK/facebook/videos/vl.515712155263726/10154597969851729/
However, there is no offical link to such list (id vl.515712155263726).
When you view a video directly, it depends on the link, for example the same video when visited as
FACEBOOK/video.php?v=10154651089866729
and
FACEBOOK/facebook/videos/vl.515712155263726/10154651089866729/
will give you different next video (in what you might think as the next item in 'your' current playlist).
The source code of youtube-dl also show nothing to support facebook playlist for the time being (see ).
So you are out of luck.
Note: Replace FACEBOOK with actual link to the site.
I'm not sure about that, But here is a good way. Make your Own playlist and Download all at a time.
if you are using Windows OS. Follow below steps.
- Go to any video, and right click on that. Copy video URL. 2.Open your notepad and paste that URL.
LIKE THIS
- one by one paste video URL and make a playlist with in your notepad.
- and save it with a name.
- And run command
youtube-dl --batch-file=yourfile.txt
Example:
i created a folder, you-dl. And then inside you-dl , a notepad which contain list of URL. and named it downme.txt
next, cd in to that folder (you-dl) and run command youtube-dl --batch-file=downme.txt
In order to download a playlist just add the next parameter
--yes-playlistthat's all, regards
The manpage indicate :
--playlist-start NUMBER playlist video to start at (default is 1)
--playlist-end NUMBER playlist video to end at (default is last)
Perhaps you can do something with these. I don't know if they are only for youtube, and unfortunately I can't test for facebook.
An alternative would be to create a script to download your playlist : I made something similar for youtube playlists, you need to enter the playlist's URL though.
Creating that script (for Youtube) is easy in batch : wget to get the playlist page, then grep the vidoe links, use wc to get the links without html tags, and then supply the result to youtube-dl.
You will probably need to do something similar for facebook playlists. Is there a playlist where those video are stored ? If they are just suggestion, it might be harder to do.
