Facebook video downloader
Free Facebook Video Downloader
Facebook keeps two copies of most uploads, an SD one and an HD one, and shows you whichever your connection can handle. Paste a link here and you choose which of them you actually take.
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Pick SD or HD rather than letting the feed decide
Works with page posts, group posts and Watch links
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All about the Facebook video downloader
What is a Facebook video downloader?
A Facebook video downloader resolves a public post URL to the MP4 file behind it. Facebook offers no download button on other people’s videos and only a limited one on your own, so the alternative is a screen recording that loses quality and catches the interface. The useful detail most people miss is that Facebook stores several renditions of the same upload and streams whichever suits your connection. Downloading lets you pick the best one rather than accepting the one the feed decided to give you.
How to download a Facebook video
The same steps cover page posts, public group posts and Watch videos.
- Open the post and click the three dots, then Copy link. Right clicking the video itself gives you a different menu that will not help.
- Paste the link on this page. Short fb.watch links resolve the same as full URLs.
- Pick HD if it is offered. Facebook only generates an HD rendition when the original was uploaded at sufficient quality, so it will not always be there.
- Download the MP4 and check it plays before closing the tab.
- If the link fails, open it in a logged out browser window. If Facebook asks you to sign in there, the video is not public and the downloader cannot reach it.
Things worth knowing before you download
Facebook behaves differently from the other networks in a few ways that catch people out.
- Private group video is out of reach even if you are a member, because the tool has no session and cannot see anything a signed out visitor cannot.
- Live video can only be saved after the broadcast ends and Facebook finishes processing the replay.
- The quality you watched is not necessarily the best available, so check for an HD option rather than assuming SD is all there is.
- Download your own page videos before archiving or deleting a page. Facebook does not hand you an export of them afterwards.
- Ask before reposting someone else’s video commercially. A download grants you nothing in terms of rights, and Facebook video is frequently reposted without permission.
Who uses this tool
Facebook downloads skew more towards archiving than towards reposting.
- Page owners archiving their own back catalogue before a rebrand, a handover or a page deletion.
- Community managers saving a video from a public group so it survives the post being removed.
- Marketers pulling a competitor’s ad creative into a swipe file to study the structure.
- Anyone who recorded a family video years ago and now finds Facebook is the only place it still exists.
- Editors who need the file itself for a compilation or a presentation rather than a link that needs a connection.
Facebook downloader specs
What the tool returns and where it stops.
| Detail | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Output format | MP4 | No conversion needed |
| Quality options | SD and HD where available | HD depends on the original upload |
| Accepted links | facebook.com and fb.watch | Page, public group and Watch posts |
| Private or group only video | Not supported | Requires a signed in session |
| Live video | After the replay is processed | Not during the broadcast |
| Software needed | None | No app and no extension |
| Cost | Free | No account and no card |
| Storage | Nothing retained | Links are not logged |
Checked in September 2026. Facebook changes its video delivery regularly, so a failure on one specific post usually reflects a platform change rather than a bad link.
When this is not the right tool
Anything that needs a login is out of scope, which rules out private groups, friends only posts and most personal profile video. It is also the wrong tool for reposting at scale: lifting a page’s video library into your own is how pages get restricted, quite apart from the copyright question. For video on another network use the tool built for it, such as the Instagram video downloader or the X video downloader. If you are trying to work out why a competitor’s video did well rather than to keep a copy of it, the Facebook competitor analytics tool answers that question far better.
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Niamh Gallagher
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Frequently Asked
Questions
Click the three dots on the post, choose Copy link, paste it into the field on this page and pick SD or HD. Facebook provides no download button for other people’s videos, which is why an external tool is needed at all.
Facebook stores several renditions of the same upload and streams whichever suits your connection, so the version you watched may not be the best one available. HD only exists if the original was uploaded at sufficient quality.
No. The tool has no signed in session, so it can only see what a logged out visitor sees. If opening the link in a private browser window prompts you to sign in, the video is out of reach even though you can watch it yourself.
Only after it ends. Once the broadcast finishes and Facebook processes the replay, the recording becomes a normal video post and the link will resolve. During the live stream there is no complete file to fetch.
Yes. Short fb.watch links resolve exactly like full facebook.com URLs, and you can leave any tracking parameters attached. Use whichever form the Copy link button gives you.
No. The link is used to fetch the file and nothing is kept afterwards. There is no account, so nothing is associated with you and no copy remains on our side once the download finishes.
Saving your own uploads is fine, and downloading public video for personal viewing sits in the same grey area as saving any web content. Republishing someone else’s video, particularly in advertising, needs their permission regardless of how you obtained the file.
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