Lots of users daily upload many videos in Facebook for sharing it with their friends or for social activities. Video streaming feature of Facebook is gaining popularity very fast and soon it will be competing with others in this segment like Youtube, Vimeo, etc. But apart from all this, Facebook has not provided any feature to let his/her users to download those videos, but you can learn to download videos using this tutorial.
6 Steps to download facebook videos online:
First you need to identify if the video is hosted by Facebook or not. It can be easily identified using simple inspection as shown below:
Above video is not hosted on Facebook. You can see in the image, the host is Youtube.
Above video is hosted on Facebook.
Now get the URL/link of the Facebook video. Video may be shared on the activity feed or you may have the direct access to the video page.
If the video is shared on the activity feed then Right Click → Copy Link Address as shown below:
Copied video link will be like this:
http://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=983761418315992
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=983761418315992
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=983761418315992
You can also copy the video link from the browser when you click to watch the video:
Copied video link will be like this:
https://www.facebook.com/USER_NAME/videos/USER_ALBUM/983761418315992/?type=2&theater
https://www.facebook.com/USER_NAME/videos/983761418315992/?pnref=story
In downfacebook.com/, paste the link in the input box and click the Download button.
After clicking on Download button, a download page will open containing download link of the video with a video preview which you can use to watch the video before downloading it. Videos are provided in MP4 formats and may available in two resolutions i.e. HD (high-definition) and SD (standard-definition).