How to Download Videos From Facebook

How to Download Videos From Facebook

Everyone knows how to download YouTube videos. You can do this easily whether you’re on Windows, on a Mac, or even if you want to download whole video playlists. But do you know how to download Facebook videos? By the end of this article, you will.

Download Facebook Videos

Important note: Different Facebook videos have different privacy settings. You will only be capable to download your own videos, or videos posted by others as public.

1. Downvids.net

It’s simple to download any Facebook video using Downvids. Just paste the video URL in the box, choose your quality, and hit download. Well, that’s approximately it. Downvids does try to confuse you with nice green buttons which you don’t have to use.

To actually get your video quickly, right click the smaller button below and choose “save as”. You can also just click it and watch the video in your browser, but without Facebook’s annoying distraction.

If you do use the green button, it will redirect you to a different page where you will be downloading the iLivid Download Manager. This is a legit program as far as I can see, but you just don’t need it to download your video.

In addition, Downvids supplies a QR code. Scan it to immediately watch the video on your phone. There’s also a Downvids Android app, in case you want to download videos directly from your phone.

2. DownFacebook

DownFacebook is dedicated to downloading Facebook videos. Here too, all you have to do is paste a link to download the video, but using DownFacebook you’ll be better off using just the start of the URL. If you paste the whole nine yards as appears in the address bar on Facebook, the interface will become too wide to use. Just grab thehttp://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=<number> or thehttp://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=<number> URL for best results.

You’ll then get a preview of the video which you can watch right there, and links to download different qualities of the video, if available. Unfortunately, the link to the HD version simply didn’t work for me. It kept downloading a 175k video file which obviously played nothing. The normal quality link worked fine. This bug might be something to do with the videos I tried, so it won’t hurt trying yourself.

Also included is an embed code, in case you want to embed the video in your website. The interface, as you can see, leaves a lot to be preferred but it does the job.

Another way to use DownFacebook is to add the word “down” before the word Facebook in the video URL. (i.e., http://www.downfacebook.com/video/video.php?v=<number>). This works fine, but for some reason brings you to the website’s Spanish version. In addition, you need to change the https in the URL to http, otherwise you’ll get a certificate alert.

3. FacebookVideoz

FacebookVideoz also offers two methods of download: paste the URL (long one works fine) in the website’s box, or add “videoz” to the actual Facebook URL. Here too, you’ll have to remove the “s” from the https, otherwise the method won’t work at all.

The ad-strewn interface is nonetheless simple to understand, with no confusing buttons. You can either watch the video right there, or right click either of the download buttons and choose “save as…” to download it. Both download methods (pasting URL or adding the word “videoz”) bring you to the exact same place.