You happened to see a video on Facebook and want to watch it all the way through, but you don’t have permission right now. Obviously you want downloadability. But the question is, can you download videos from Facebook? Yes, of course, but how? You will find countless software or tools that claim to be the only video downloader on Facebook. But are they really doing their job well? We’ll get to that later in this guide as I have discussed some useful websites and downloaders that can make downloading videos from FB easy.
Content Reasons for downloading Facebook videos How to download Facebook videos?
- Method-1 on desktop
- Method 2 on Android
- Method 3- On iPhone
How to download Facebook Live Videos?
How to download Facebook videos shared on private groups?
Reasons to download Facebook videos
Just like you download YouTube videos and save them for later use, you can do the same thing with Facebook videos. Not only that, you may want to reshare, edit it or just want to post a clip from it to get more Facebook likes.
Here are the possible reasons why you download any Facebook video:
- You find the content useful and want to keep it as a reference for later use.
- Your game console has the option to record videos, but it only allows you to post them to Facebook and you want to upload them to YouTube as well.
- Your Instagram video that you shared on your Facebook page and now you want it to appear on your YouTube channel or on your website.
- You’ve created a live video on one of your private Facebook groups and now want to share it on other platforms.
How to download Facebook videos?
Method-1 on desktop
- Log in to your Facebook account or go to www.facebook.com and your news feed will open if you’re signed in. Go to the video you want to download, or if you don’t have a link to it, go to ‘Follow Facebook’.
- Scroll down to the video you want to download, or you can find it using the ‘Search Video’ text box.
- Next, click on the three-dot menu icon in the top right corner of the video and in the menu that appears, click the ‘Copy Link’ option to copy the Facebook video link to the clipboard.
OR
You can right click on the video and select the option that says ‘Copy video URL at current time’.
- You now have several options to download videos from Facebook, the link you just copied.
- Fbdown.net-
This is the most used site to download videos from Facebook. What you need to do is just go to the website and paste the link you copied in the previous step, click ‘Download’.
- Next step, click “Download normal quality video” or “Download HD quality video” (if available).
- If the video starts playing instead of downloading, click the three dots in the bottom left corner of the video and tap ‘Download’; this will start downloading the video.
- The video will appear and you will see a red ‘Download’ button next to the video title.
- Clicking the “Download” button will bring up a drop-down menu showing the video quality from which you can choose. You can choose HD video quality from the menu.
- If the video starts playing instead of downloading, click the three dots in the bottom left corner of the video and tap ‘Download’; this will start downloading the video.
Method 2 on Android
If you use your phone more than your desktop, you can also download videos there. To download Facebook videos on Android, the steps are slightly different.
- First, you need to download the ES File Explorer app from the Google Play Store.
- Then open Facebook on your phone; You must log in to your account.
- Search for the video you want to download, or you can even go to the profile of the person who posted the video to find it there.
- Open video to play to avoid download broken link.
- Click “Share” and it will give you the “Copy Link” option of the video.
- Then open the browser on your phone and go to savefrom.net.
- Paste the video link into the appropriate text field and click ‘Download’.
- The video will be downloaded to your Android phone, and to watch it, simply open ES File Explorer and check the Internal Storage folder or the SD card, depending on where your videos are stored. You can also check your phone gallery for saved Facebook videos.
Method 3- On iPhone
I know there are iPhone users who also want to download Facebook videos on iPhone. Here you are:
- Go to the App store on your iPhone and download the ‘Documents by Readdle’ app to your device.
- Now go to your Facebook account and open the video you want to download.
- You can search for a video in News Feed or go directly to the profile of the person who shared it.
- Tap the video to play it to make sure you download the broken link and regret the effort later.
- Tap the ‘Share’ option available just below the video.
- From the menu that appears, select ‘Copy Link’, which will copy the video address to your clipboard.
- Now open the Documents app on your phone and tap the ‘Safari’ icon in the bottom right corner of the screen.
- Tap the address bar and go to savefrom.net.
- Now you have to paste the link you copied earlier into the space provided.
- Press ‘Download’ and the highest video quality will be selected, press ‘Done’ to continue.
- To see download progress, tap the ‘Download’ icon in the bottom right corner of the screen.
- Once the download is complete, you can tap on the video to watch it whenever you want.
- To save a video to your phone’s gallery, tap the three dots below your video, then tap ‘Share’.
- Then hit ‘Save to file’, choose a folder and press ‘Add’.
- Open the files app on your device, open the folder where you want to save the video, then tap the ‘Share’ icon and finally tap ‘Save Video’.
How to download Facebook Live Videos?
Before, Facebook didn’t make it easy to download your life, but now it’s a lot easier than before. Read on for the steps to download your Facebook Live Videos.
Steps to download someone else’s Facebook Live
- The first step is to log into your Facebook account and go to the Facebook Watch section, there click on the ‘Live’ option in the left column. All current Facebook Lives will appear.
- Click on the three-dot menu icon in the upper right corner of the video and select the “Copy URL” option.
- Go to savefrom.net, paste the link in the space provided and click ‘Download’.
- This will give you the option to download the video in MP4 format and that’s it.
Steps to download your Facebook live video
In case you want to download your FB live, here are the steps you need to follow:
- Find the video you want to download and click it to play.
- Click on the three dots in the top right corner and you will see the option to ‘Download’ the video.
- By clicking on the download option you will be able to save your Facebook live video to your computer.
It’s that simple!
How to download Facebook videos to share on a private group?
The suggestion tool above may not work in case you need to download a video shared on a private Facebook group. In the meantime, you can use GetVFid, Facebook’s private video downloader.
You just need to follow few steps to download videos:
- Go to the private video you want to download and press CTRL+U to view the page source.
- Copy and paste the page source into the space provided (as shown in the image above) and click ‘Download’.
Another option is to use an extension like Social Video Downloader and download videos on the go.
This is over and I hope all the methods explained in this guide will be helpful when you want to download your favorite FB videos.
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