Retrieving facebook reel happens to Cannot parse data (version 2026.08.19)
Author: sunneoCreated Sep 23, 2026Updated Oct 1, 2026
Labelssite-bugtriagesite:facebook
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Taiwan
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command: yt-dlp --cookies ./www.facebook.com_cookies.txt https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=1591316522498163
[facebook] Extracting URL: https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=1591316522498163 [facebook] 1591316522498163: Downloading webpage [facebook] 1591316522498163: Downloading webpage ERROR: [facebook] 1591316522498163: Cannot parse data; please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U
Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem
- Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (
yt-dlp -vU <your command line>) - If using API, add
'verbose': TruetoYoutubeDLparams instead - Copy the WHOLE output (starting with
[debug] Command-line config) and insert it below
Complete Verbose Output
$ youtube-dl -vU --cookies ./www.facebook.com_cookies.txt https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=1591316522498163
[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', '--cookies', './www.facebook.com_cookies.txt', 'https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=1591316522498163']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp950, fs utf-8, pref cp950, out cp950 (No ANSI), error cp950 (No ANSI), screen cp950 (No ANSI)
[debug] yt-dlp version [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp [594bd50c2] (win_exe)
[debug] Python 3.10.11 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1t 7 Feb 2023)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2025-09-04-git-2611874a50-full_build-www.gyan.dev (setts), ffprobe 2025-09-04-git-2611874a50-full_build-www.gyan.dev
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotli-1.2.0, certifi-2026.07.22, curl_cffi-0.16.0, mutagen-1.48.1, requests-2.34.2, sqlite3-3.40.1, urllib3-2.7.0, websockets-16.1.1, yt_dlp_ejs-0.8.0
[debug] JS runtimes: deno-2.7.14
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets, curl_cffi
[debug] Plugin directories: none
[debug] Loaded 1744 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
Latest version: [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
yt-dlp is up to date ([email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp)
[facebook] Extracting URL: https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=1591316522498163
[facebook] 1591316522498163: Downloading webpage
[facebook] 1591316522498163: Downloading webpage
ERROR: [facebook] 1591316522498163: Cannot parse data; please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U
File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 765, in extract
File "yt_dlp\extractor\facebook.py", line 883, in _real_extract
File "yt_dlp\extractor\facebook.py", line 828, in _extract_from_urlSource: yt-dlp/yt-dlp