Comment by phwd

7 years ago

I've downloaded my zip file to try to verify what's going on in the article

I think I have an idea of what might have happened.

When you add a video to the composer window

One of the requests is https://vupload-edge.facebook.com/ajax/video/upload/requests... (Look it up in the network tab of whatever browser dev tool you are using)

With the response as,

for (;;);{"__ar":1,"payload":{"video_id":"11111111111111","start_offset":0,"end_offset":353662,"skip_upload":false},"bootloadable":{},"ixData":{},"gkxData":{},"lid":"1"}

The video 11111111111111 is now in an "unpublished" state. "unpublished" here meaning it's uploaded to Facebook but not linked to a post yet.

You can verify this by taking that ID and doing the following

https://www.facebook.com/11111111111111/ -> redirects to https://www.facebook.com/phwd/11111111111111/

"Sorry, this content isn't available right now"

Your options now are to either discard the post or publish with a privacy setting which will make the link above available. (Notice I didn't say discard the video, the video is still in an unpublished state)

Now for the archive.

You can verify by going to view-source:fb.com/me in a browser Search for the string "access_token" there will be a long string appended. (e.g. access_token:"EAAAAU...)

With that token go to your archive and roll over one of the links in the video section that has an issue and doesn't appear in the activity log.

file:///Users/phwd/Desktop/facebook-phwd-from-zip/videos/11111111111111.mp4

grab the ID 11111111111111 and do the following

https://graph.facebook.com/11111111111111?access_token=THE_T...

That shows an unpublished video for me, it wouldn't show in your activity log (that's the only part of the story I can agree and can confirm with what I have available)

To delete add the method=delete to the request.

https://graph.facebook.com/v2.9/11111111111111?method=delete...

Response should be

{ "success": true }

The next part would be to verify that the video is deleted from the archive. Since Facebook is still giving me the first download zip, I guess I'll have to wait a while (it's 1 am here so I'm heading to bed) until it resets so I can make it build a new archive and confirm the hunch.

This is just my guess, I'm NOT discounting what the Facebook user encountered. I'm just providing a possible background to how it can happen as well as a solution to deleting the "deleted" video. There is also the chance I might be wrong...

References to confirm for yourself. developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/video