[Request] Download all facebook videos

[dionorgua]

Hi,

It would be cool to be able to download all videos from facebook page. Similar to what we have for 'photos'.

So gallery-dl https://www.facebook.com/USERNAME downloads all photos

For videos it's only possible to download single video by providing exact URL.
It would be cool to have something similar to photos. One of:

• gallery-dl https://www.facebook.com/USERNAME downloads both photos and videos (if not filtered)
• https://www.facebook.com/USERNAME/videos downloads only videos

Thanks!

[mikf]

You should use yt-dlp for videos.

[dionorgua]

YT-DLP issue: yt-dlp/yt-dlp#6518

[zWolfrost]

@dionorgua Unfortunately the Facebook React UI makes it as hard as possible to extract the URL of all videos uploaded by an account. The way the extractor does it for photos is that it takes advantage of the fact that all of them are connected by a "set id" so that you can get all of them in a sequence. Videos don't really have a set id unless manually added to one. The only way to do it would be by using the API which would have its own caveats (setting up API keys requires personal information and a lot of patience).