How to download facebook videos by using 'youtube-dl' in linux?

I am unable to download Facebook video using youtube-dl. The following error occurs during downloading:

$ youtube-dl [1] 5101 [2] 5102 [3] 5103 theater: command not found [2]- Done set=vb.107925785982 [3]+ Done type=2 [2]- Done set=vb.107925785982 [3]+ Done type=2 $ [generic] video: Requesting header $ WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor. [generic] video: Downloading webpage ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 8] _ssl.c:510: EOF occurred in violation of protocol> [1]+ Exit 1 youtube-dl 

6 Answers

When using youtube-dl try to clean up the URL you use. For example, the following URL will work. Thanks for the video ^_~.

How did you install youtube-dl? If you installed it through apt, I would recommend the following:

sudo apt-get remove youtube-dl sudo apt-get install $(apt-cache depends youtube-dl | grep Depends | sed "s/.*ends:\ //" | tr '\n' ' ') sudo pip install youtube-dl 

pip seems to have a more up-to-date version.

Some characters need to be escaped to prevent issues. You can single-quote your URL to help prevent these issues:

• youtube-dl '

You have to escape ampersands (&) or put the whole URL in quotes since ampersand is one of the special characters that's interpreted by your shell and prevents you from passing the whole URL to youtube-dl. More on this. So just putting it in single quotes will suffice:

youtube-dl ' 

1. right click on the video > click on "show the video URL" > copy the URL there come (NOT the URL of the facebook page).

2. Then, paste the URL copied on the terminal next to 'youtube-dl'

   Ex.: youtube-dl

This worked in my Linux Mint 18.3-cinammon maybe it could work in yours.You can download video in facebook using youtube-dl by appending Facebook username and password as shown below:

youtube-dl <url> --username <YOUR_USERNAME> --password <YOUR_PASSWORD> 

I hope this help. Thank you.

youtube-dl --username xxxxx --password xxxxx -t -f mp4 ' 

I try download these video through wine+Youtube-dl and its working. I my case I was install YouTube-dl by Ubuntu software center. Now my software center is not work. Therefore I am unable to Update YouTube-dl through Terminal. Updated version of YouTube-dl may solve that issue. Step1:- first install and configure wine.
Step2:- download youtube-dl.exe 2016.01.15
step3:- copy youtube-dl.exe in to /home/youru_username/.wine/drive_c/folder_for_youtube-dl
step4:- open cmd.exe from /home/madhavnikam/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32

Note:- youtube-dl is a folder in which youtube-dl.exe file is copied.
step5:- type cd\ in cmd and set path like c:\youtube-dl\
More Info 1)How to install Wine in Ubuntu.
2)youtube-dl exe version download and copy to C_drive folder of .wine folder.