[fr] [Facebook] 'biography' info

[throwaway242685]

hi, I was wondering if something similar to IG's biography info could be implemented for FB?

[mikf]

Could you provide an example of what you would consider the biography of a FB user?

[throwaway242685]

well, in the case of https://www.facebook.com/instagram, it would be "Discover what's new on Instagram 🔎✨"

[throwaway242685]

hey, thanks for implementing it :)

but, with certain profiles the biography output is empty:

https://www.facebook.com/Forgetmen0w

that profile has some text in the bio, but the biography info on gallery-dl is empty.

(and yes, i'm using cookies)

[mikf]

Should be fixed in b79d35e

[throwaway242685]

Should be fixed in b79d35e

does this work for you?

in my case, the bio output is still empty.

I already updated to the latest version by using this:

py -3 -m pip install -U --force-reinstall --no-deps https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/archive/master.tar.gz

[mikf]

$ gallery-dl --print post:biography -C cookies-facebook-com.txt https://www.facebook.com/Forgetmen0w/info
G ❤️

[throwaway242685]

is this the latest version of gallery-dl?

gallery_dl @ https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/archive/master.tar.gz#sha256=5ab722a897ac8ebdb31521356fe09034c18faf1c03b75d589b3a7f9248328263

that's the version that I see when running pip freeze.

idk what's wrong on my end, but I'm still getting a blank space (empty) when trying to get that bio.

updating the cookies doesn't seem to make a difference.

[mikf]

It is the latest version.

You are most likely getting a different HTML page than me. Could you run this URL with --write-pages and post the file here (after removing your personal data)?

[throwaway242685]

you mean this?

> gallery-dl https://www.facebook.com/Forgetmen0w/info --print post:biography -C "C:\0\(FB).txt" --write-pages --no-colors
[facebook][info] Writing 'https://www.facebook.com/Forgetmen0w' response to 'C:\5\01_https_www.facebook.com_Forgetmen0w.txt'
[facebook][info] Writing 'https://www.facebook.com/Forgetmen0w' response to 'C:\5\02_https_www.facebook.com_Forgetmen0w.txt'
[facebook][info] Writing 'https://www.facebook.com/Forgetmen0w' response to 'C:\5\03_https_www.facebook.com_Forgetmen0w.txt'
None

that outputs three large .txt files of around 3MB each one, but they have a lot of unreadable text, lol.

[mikf]

Yes, these are what I mean. They should contain the biography data somewhere in them among all the unreadable text.

(I only get 1 file and it is "only" 2.2MB when running the same command)

[throwaway242685]

can you show me in what part of the .txt file you have that info?

so I can try to search it on these three files. (?)