You will need to have the FireFox browser installed on your pc (for the PyPI Package)

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)

Docker

** Pull the image**

docker pull rly0nheart/facebookdl:facebookdl

Geckodriver setup

Linux

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. Add geckodriver to your system path

export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/downloaded/geckodriver

Note

If you encounter issues with the above commands, then you should run them as root

Windows

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

Note

The numbers on the directory 'Python310' will depend on the version of Python you have

Mac OS

Set up Selenium & GeckoDriver (Mac)

Usage

facebook_downloader <video-url>

Docker

 docker run -it -v $PWD/downloads:/app/downloads facebookdl <facebook_url>

Note

The url format should be as follows; https://www.facebook.com/PageName/videos/VideoID

Optional Arguments

Flag	Description
-a/--audio	download as audio
-o/--output	output file name

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