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Bug: canPlay is returning true for all facebook URLs

See original GitHub issue

Current Behavior

After the new update the canPlay function is returning true for all facebook URLs because of the new matcher. This results in a lot of false positives.

Expected Behavior

canPlay should only return true if it actually can be played.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:9 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

sapkracommented, Feb 2, 2020

@CookPete I’ve improved it a bit to not match any facebook pages which include watch or video.

https://regexr.com/4tdur

1reaction

paulincaicommented, Feb 2, 2020

@CookPete I get it.

Not related to the present issue/task, the thing is that I use a scrapper for all web content that lands in my platform and the URL in #778, “https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=499831560618548” ends up as “https://www.facebook.com/francknicolasofficiel/videos/499831560618548/” This is the “real” URL that ReactPlayer actually plays because the FB SDK returns this URL not the “watch” url.

And now I remember that I decided to rely on the scrapper for consistency of all URLs having them correctly formatted before saving to DB.

I am for @sapkra 's regex. I think it covers well.

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