A step-by-step guide to downloading a video from Facebook
A step-by-step guide to downloading a video from Facebook.
Facebook is booming with videos: educational videos teaching you to garden or code, those addicting and useless 5-minute craft videos, the very visibly faked videos of people catching their partners cheating on them, aliens caught on film. If there is a craving for content, that content is likely on Facebook in video form.
If you want to share that video, you can copy the link and send it to a friend, or DM it to them through the app. You can save the video, but that doesn’t actually save the video to your phone or computer's hard drive — instead, it adds the video to your saved video bookmarks so you can find it easier and watch it later on Facebook. Sometimes, though, a video is simply too brilliant or helpful to not have saved onto your phone. Maybe you want to show a parent, or access it when you’re offline. In order to
download a video from Facebook, you’ll have to follow through with a few steps.
Before we get started, it’s important to note that you should hesitate before downloading just any video. You don’t want to download copyrighted content, and if you want to download a friends’ privately uploaded video on Facebook, you may just want to ask them if it’s OK before you go through the trouble of downloading. Hey, maybe they’ll just send it to you.
1. Pick a video
A screenshot of the 5-minute crafts video on Facebook we want to download.
Find a video you want to save.
2. Copy the link
You'll need to copy the link of the Facebook video in order to download it.
