diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py
index aa2525f17..f8bdfc2d3 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py
@@ -102,10 +102,11 @@ class FacebookIE(InfoExtractor):
if not m:
m_msg = re.search(r'class="[^"]*uiInterstitialContent[^"]*">
(.*?)
', webpage)
if m_msg is not None:
- err_msg = u'The video is not available, Facebook said: "%s"' % m_msg.group(1)
+ raise ExtractorError(
+ u'The video is not available, Facebook said: "%s"' % m_msg.group(1),
+ expected=True)
else:
- err_msg = u'Cannot parse data'
- raise ExtractorError(err_msg)
+ raise ExtractorError(u'Cannot parse data')
data = dict(json.loads(m.group(1)))
params_raw = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(data['params'])
params = json.loads(params_raw)