How do I download Facebook playlists with youtube-dl?

Question

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?

Answer 1

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 https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py).

So you are out of luck.

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Note: Replace FACEBOOK with actual link to the site.

Answer 2

In order to download a playlist just add the next parameter

--yes-playlist

that's all, regards

Answer 3

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.

1. Go to any video, and right click on that. Copy video URL. 2.Open your notepad and paste that URL.

LIKE THIS

3. one by one paste video URL and make a playlist with in your notepad.
4. and save it with a name.
5. 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

Answer 4

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.