Download facebook private videos using Python

Downloading facebook videos is quite easy.

There are several software online / offline that will do the work.

But did you try doing it with python?

Here is how I did it.

Step 1 Get View source

Step one 1:

☺ Getting the "View source" code of the facebook video. (private group / public group / facebook page)

☺ Right on the video Click on "Copy Video URL".

☺ In front of the url type "view-source:"

∟ The url will look something like this. ->

view-source:https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=12345678910

☺ Paste and run the url on another tab of the same browser.

Step 2 Copy-Paste Source-Code in Notepad

Step two 2:

☺ Copy paste the whole source code on a notepad and save it as "fb_video_data.txt"

Step 3 Run Python Facebook Scraper

Step three 3:

☺ Create a python file and name it "find_video.py"

Copy paste the whole code in "find_video.py" and Run.

## Dev:- Joel Dcosta
## Facebook video finder
## manual search
## in front of video url  - (view-source:)
##search (https://video)

## get video source copy paste on a notepad
## save it as fb_video_data.txt
## Run the program in python 3
with open("fb_video_data.txt","r",encoding="utf-8") as f:
     data_raw = f.readlines()
     data = str(data_raw)
     data_1 = data.split('"')
     for i in data_1:
          if "https://video" in i:
               if "BaseURL" not in i:
                    print(i)
                    with open("fb_vid_found.csv","+a") as t:
                         t.writelines(str(i)+"\n\n")
          else:
               pass

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