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

5 years ago · 2297c0d7d9
1 changed files with 5 additions and 0 deletions
--- 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(