Downloading videos from Facebook to your computer or smartphone is pretty easy today. We’ve selected the best apps and websites to help you quickly download clips and enjoy watching them offline whenever and wherever you want. Funny videos, DIY instructions, or favorite music clips. Let’s see how to save them all.
To be on the safe side, you can’t upload videos that are protected by privacy settings. We couldn’t have mentioned it. Facebook developers have tried to create barriers to such downloads, but they can easily be bypassed with the right web applications.
First of all, you need to find out if the video you want is directly uploaded to Facebook. Users often post links to videos from YouTube or other video services. You can play them on the Facebook page using your own YouTube Player, but they are still on YouTube’s servers. You can recognize such videos, for example, by a thumbnail preview image. In this case, we recommend you to download Free YouTube Download, which allows you to download videos from YouTube.
If it’s nothing to do with YouTibe, and the video of your choice is loaded directly to Facebook, here are two ways to get it on your computer.
The first way is the coolest one. And it only works on computers, not phones or tablets. It’s so simple, that hard to believe in.
1. Open the Facebook website in your browser, find the video you need and copy the link (you can do it by clicking “Share” “Copy Link”).
2. Paste the copied URL address in the address bar if a new tab and change the “WWW” to “mbasic”. This will allow you to download the file.
3. Click on the video and choose “Save As”. Save it wherever you want on your computer and watch it with the player if your choice.
Super easy, isn’t it? There are also different web applications for downloaded the Facebook videos. One of them is fbdown.net. The scheme is easy, and works the same for all the websites of this kind. You press Share in the Facebook video, Cooy its URL address and then put it into the address line of the web application you are using. The “Download” button will appear on the screen, and you proceed with simple steps, saving the file as a regular one.
Unfortunately, you can’t repeat the trick with the computer downloads on your mobile device. Though today there are dozens of apps, created for getting the video files from Facebook right into the memory of your phone.
MyVideoDownloader or Friendly for Facebook apps work easy and quick. After getting the application, log into your Facebook account and allow the app to access your data.
You will then see all the videos from your page that you can download using the app. Note that the app can only handle public videos. In most cases, videos have no privacy settings, so you won’t have a problem downloading them.