youtube-dl

commit: 2297c0d7d977921dca865e6c9cbc7ee5282ba8ef
parent 824fa51165d92ceee01589bf995ebbf009df328c
Author: Sergey M․ <dstftw@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 19 Oct 2019 23:56:36 +0700

[facebook] Bypass download rate limits (closes #21018)

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youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py
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1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py
@@ -405,6 +405,11 @@ class FacebookIE(InfoExtractor):
         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(