How do I download videos from Facebook

Facebook is overflowing with videos: educational ones instructing you to garden or code, those addictive and ineffective 5-minute craft videos and those very clearly faked videos of people who catch their partners cheating on them, aliens caught on camera. If there's a need for content, it is likely to be available on Facebook in video form.

If you'd like to share the video, copy the link and send it to a friend or DM the person via the application. You can save the video but it's not actually saving the video on your computer or phone's hard drive. Instead, it saves the video to your bookmarks of saved videos to make it searchable quicker and then watch it on Facebook. Sometimes, however the video may be too brilliant or helpful to not save to your smartphone. Maybe you want to show an adult, or use it when you're off. If you want to download the video from Facebook it is necessary to follow through with a few steps.

Before we get started, it's important to note that you should be cautious before downloading just any video. You shouldn't download content that is copyrighted or if you wish to download a friend's privately uploaded video on Facebook It's possible that you want to ask them whether it's safe prior to going through the hassle of downloading. It's possible that they'll give it to you.

1. Pick a video

Find a YouTube video you'd like to save.

2. Copy the link

You'll need to copy the link to the Facebook video in order to download it.

Click the three dots located at the top of the right side of the video. then copy the link.

3. Copy that link into a new tab

Once you copy that link, paste it into the new tab.

Copy and paste the link into a new tab and navigate to that website.

4. Remove "www" within the url and replace it with "mbasic. "

It is necessary to change your URL to redirect to an older version of Facebook currently.

This is how it should look like when you change "www" in your browser to "mbasic" on your internet browser.

In the link, remove"www" from the link "www" in the link and replace it with "mbasic." This will make your site into a very old-fashioned kind of Facebook.

5. Open the video in the new tab

A screenshot of the Facebook video as a standalone on a page.

This is now just one video played on a black screen.

6. Right click, and save the video

Now you've done it! Now all you have to do is save videos from Facebook onto your device.

Right-click the video, then save as and boom! You're done.

There's an easier method to do this, and that's how you can also save it on a mobile device. You can download a video from Facebook in the same way you would download a YouTube video from Twitter using the copy of the share URL, then paste that link into a third-party website designed to complete the task for you. Once you've got the tweet's URL copied, you'll need to go to a website like FB Down. In there, you can copy the link, then click to download. You can also download a third-party application, like The Friendly for Facebook app, that gives the Facebook app extra features, including a downloading option.

If you aren't able to resolve the issue then you could always record your screen, play the video, and save the video to your computer or smartphone this way. Screen recording is fairly easy but it will not offer the same level of quality when conserving the Facebook video independently. More on Inflact.