_CHROME_USER_AGENT = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.97 Safari/537.36'
_VIDEO_PAGE_TEMPLATE = 'https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=%s'
- _VIDEO_PAGE_TAHOE_TEMPLATE = 'https://www.facebook.com/video/tahoe/async/%s/?chain=true&isvideo=true'
+ _VIDEO_PAGE_TAHOE_TEMPLATE = 'https://www.facebook.com/video/tahoe/async/%s/?chain=true&isvideo=true&payloadtype=primary'
_TESTS = [{
'url': 'https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=637842556329505&fref=nf',
if not formats:
raise ExtractorError('Cannot find video formats')
+ # Downloads with browser's User-Agent are rate limited. Working around
+ # with non-browser User-Agent.
+ for f in formats:
+ f.setdefault('http_headers', {})['User-Agent'] = 'facebookexternalhit/1.1'
+
self._sort_formats(formats)
video_title = self._html_search_regex(
uploader = clean_html(get_element_by_id(
'fbPhotoPageAuthorName', webpage)) or self._search_regex(
r'ownerName\s*:\s*"([^"]+)"', webpage, 'uploader',
- fatal=False) or self._og_search_title(webpage, fatal=False)
+ default=None) or self._og_search_title(webpage, fatal=False)
timestamp = int_or_none(self._search_regex(
r'<abbr[^>]+data-utime=["\'](\d+)', webpage,
'timestamp', default=None))
- thumbnail = self._og_search_thumbnail(webpage)
+ thumbnail = self._html_search_meta(['og:image', 'twitter:image'], webpage)
view_count = parse_count(self._search_regex(
r'\bviewCount\s*:\s*["\']([\d,.]+)', webpage, 'view count',