Bypassing Facebook Prohibit Embedding Feature For Public Video

Mukul Lohar
1 min readMar 1, 2020
old write-up : https://immukul.blogspot.com/2017/04/facebook-bypassing-prohibit-embedding.html

Descriptions:-

In Facebook, when user upload a video. user have option to prohibit embedding. In short these videos can’t be used on third party website.

Poc:-

I used this html code to embed public facebook video.

<iframe src=”https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id={Video_id}%2F&width=500&show_text=false&height=280&appId" width=”500" height=”280" style=”border:none;overflow:hidden” scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0" allowTransparency=”true”></iframe>

TIMELINE:-

27/01/17:- Bug Reported

28/01/17:- Bug Acknowledge
08/03/17:- Bug patched
16/03/17:- Bounty Awarded

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