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A shared Facebook link lands on a page that carries the whole post logged
out -- the caption, the author, the files, the dimensions -- in ScheduledServerJS
payloads that are plain JSON in ordinary script tags. What it does not carry
is only that post. A reel arrives with the next five reels of the feed
attached under viewer.lasso_blue_feed, a video with its related videos, and
every one of them has the same fields in the same shape as the real one.
Reading the first node with media on it gets a stranger's reel under someone
else's name, which is the same false attribution a lifted quote-post picture
used to be.
So nothing is read until the post has been picked out. partsOfPost matches the
id in the address against every node that names one; an address with no id in
it -- a pfbid permalink -- is matched on permalink_url instead. Only with
nothing to match on at all does it fall back to the route's query results,
which is still narrower than the whole payload: the page ships its entire
client configuration alongside the post, thousands of nodes carrying a name or
an id, and a plain search finds a video player setting long before it finds the
author.
An id that matches nothing is a failure rather than a best guess. Facebook
answers a link to something it no longer has by quietly serving something else
-- /watch/<id> for a video that is gone comes back as the Watch home page, feed
and all -- so the error card, which still carries the link and the copy button,
is the honest answer.
One post's pieces are spread across several payload blocks: a video post keeps
its files in one, its caption in another, its author's avatar in a third and
its timestamp in a fourth. Every claiming node is collected, not just the
first, and the author's gaps are filled only from nodes carrying the same id.
The author is whatever the payload calls the owner -- actors, owner,
video_owner, owner_as_page. `author` on a Facebook page means the author of a
comment, which sits right there in the same shape with a name and a picture of
its own.
Media is videoDeliveryLegacyFields.browser_native_hd_url with
preferred_thumbnail as its poster, photo_image or image for a picture, and
all_subattachments.nodes for a post of several -- which Facebook ships empty on
every single-picture post, so only a populated one is a carousel. The CDN is
signed and serves Range without asking for a referrer, but the assets are
proxied like everything else.
/share/{r,v,p,g} links are stubs, so the adapter follows one and hands back
where it landed: the share code says nothing about what it opens, and rdid,
share_url and fs are what the redirect leaves behind. m.facebook.com is a login
wall logged out, so the rewrite rule rebuilds on www.
Fixtures are real captures of a reel, a photo post and a video post, trimmed of
the DASH manifests and tracking blobs. The reel keeps its recommendations and
the video post keeps its comments, because those are the two things that have
to survive being read past.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>