A program for downloading videos from facebook, given a video url
Install from PyPI
pip install facebook-downloader
In order to run the program, You will need to have the FireFox browser installed on your pc The program is dependent on selenium, so in order to run it, you will have to download and properly setup geckodriver (setup instructions available below)
1. Go to the geckodriver releases page. Find the latest version of the driver for your platform and download it
2. Extract the downloaded file
tar -xvzf geckodriver*
3. Make it executable
chmod +x geckodriver
4. Add geckodriver to your system path
export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/downloaded/geckodriver
If you encounter issues with the above commands, then you should run them as root (with sudo)
1. Go to the geckodriver releases page. Find the geckodriver.exe binary for your platform and download it
2. Move the downloaded executable to C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310
The numbers on the directory 'Python310' will depend on the version of Python you have
facebook_downloader <video-url>
Upon run, the program will first check for updates. If found, users will be notified about the update
Flag | Description |
---|---|
-a/--audio | download as audio |
-o/--output | output file name |
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