Change the page's URL - replace www with m and load that.

Getting the right URL can take a bit of playing around but it works when you've got it rightĪnother alternative that worked in Firefox in Feb 2021:

this will all only work if you are logged into FB and have permission to view the video (doesnt' work incognito).

Your browsers default html video player which has a download button Drop any parts of the URL that have frame sizing etc. So replace the '& a m p ' (< had to space that so it doesn't get converted here) separators in the address with just & - use notepad find and replace or something ) and paste in another tab. When you copy the address, chrome (if that's what you are using) does the html replacement for the ampersand characters. Video tags - which will be inside a div that also contains another address with forward slashes and. Search for mp4 till you find a source address that's inside the

play the video, while it's playing open the dev tools and go to the elements tab.

paste that address into another tab and replace the.

open up the video and r.click for Get Video URL (copy it) -if you have the option 'Copy URL at current time', use that option instead of 'Show video URL'.

(As long as you are logged into FB and have permission to view the video). You can download an FB video in a chrome browser with no plugins / other software required. You can also click the XHR button in Filters so it doesn't show non-video files like FB images.

If you need to download many videos and don't want to guess whether your link points to audio or video, type larger-than: 50k (or more) in the Filter field in the Network tab. Instructions to reduce the chance of accidentally picking an audio link are below. Just try repeating steps 5-7 with a different string of numbers till you get it right. That's because Facebook downloads the audio and video separately. Sometimes, when you open the link you may get just the audio of the video instead of the video itself.

Open the modified link, right click the video inside and select 'Save video as.' Paste (CTRL+V) the link you copied somewhere (eg Notepad) and remove ' &bytestart=3684046&byteend=3862768' from the end.Īfter you cut the bold part out, the link that points to the full. Right click one of those strings, then go Copy>Copy link address Long strings of numbers will appear every couple of seconds. Let it play for a few seconds and look at the Network tab during that. Play the video you would like to download on Facebook.

Go to the Network tab in the Developer Tools (it's at the top of the Developer Tools window) The downloaded video will have no sound, but you will be able to download its audio file and connect it to the video in some video editing program if you need to. This method will get the video and its audio AS SEPARATE FILES.

Convert fb video to mp4