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Facebook video downloader
Paste the link to a public Facebook video and get a clean copy back. No account, no browser extension, no password — built for people archiving their own posts and Pages.
Facebook video link
Only download videos you made or have permission to use. Re-uploading someone else’s Facebook video without their consent can breach copyright and Facebook’s terms.
Get your own Facebook videos back out
A Facebook video downloader solves a problem the platform never really addressed: there is no reliable “save this file” button. Facebook has been a video host since long before short-form took over, which means a lot of people have years of footage sitting in a Page or a personal timeline with no local copy anywhere — old event recordings, product demos, family clips uploaded from a phone that has since been wiped.
This tool takes the public link to a video and hands you the file. That covers the everyday cases: pulling a Page’s back catalogue down before a rebrand, keeping a record of a campaign video before a client account changes hands, or re-cutting a long upload into something short enough for TikTok and Reels. It runs in the browser, so nothing is installed and nothing goes near your login.
We ask for the link and nothing else. No Facebook email, no password, no connected app and no permissions prompt. If a downloader ever asks you to log in to Facebook to save a video, close it — that is a credential-harvesting pattern, not a feature.
How to download a Facebook video
Four steps, about fifteen seconds, on any phone or laptop.
Open the video
Find the post in the Facebook app or on facebook.com. It has to be public — anything limited to friends or to a closed group is out of reach, for this tool and every other one.
Copy the link
Tap the three dots at the top right of the post and choose “Copy link”. In the app you often get a short fb.watch address; that works here too. On desktop, the URL in the address bar is fine.
Paste it above
Drop the link into the field at the top of this page and press the button. The link is the only thing we read; your own account is never touched.
Save the file
The video comes back ready to keep on your phone or computer. File it somewhere you will find it again — Facebook’s own filenames are useless for searching later.
Why this beats the alternatives
Free, browser-based, and it never asks for your credentials.
No login, ever
You paste a public link. There is no Facebook sign-in step, no permissions dialog and no password field anywhere on this page.
Nothing to install
Works in the browser on iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows. No APK, no Chrome extension, no desktop app with bundled adware.
The published file, not a re-record
Screen recording a video adds a second round of compression, a phone-sized frame and whatever notifications slid in mid-capture. Working from the link avoids all three.
Free with no account
No sign-up, no card details and no daily quota tied to an email address. Use it once or use it every week.
Turning old Facebook uploads into new posts
Most Facebook video is horizontal and long, which is exactly wrong for the feeds people actually watch now. That is an opportunity rather than a problem: a ten-minute webinar recording usually contains three or four moments that stand alone. Download the file, find those moments, crop them to 9:16 around the speaker, add burned-in captions and you have a week of short-form from material you already paid to produce.
The second use is preservation. Pages get merged, admins leave, and access disappears with them. If your organisation has years of video on a Facebook Page and no master files, a systematic download pass — oldest first — is worth an afternoon. Save each file with the original post date in the name, because the upload order in Facebook’s interface stops making sense once you have a folder of them.
The third is competitive study, which is legitimate as long as it stays study. Saving a rival’s public ad video to analyse pacing, hook structure or how quickly they get to the offer is normal marketing work. Re-uploading that same file to your own Page is not, and Facebook’s rights-management system is fairly good at spotting it.
What this tool cannot do — and why
Private posts, friends-only videos and anything inside a closed or secret group cannot be retrieved by this tool, and they cannot be retrieved by any legitimate one either. Those posts are served only to logged-in accounts with permission to see them, so the only way to reach them is to use someone’s credentials — which is exactly why sites that promise private Facebook downloads are asking for your password. There is no clever workaround here, and we would not build one.
Downloading also does not transfer ownership. A video on Facebook belongs to whoever made it, and a saved copy is a file, not a licence. Archive your own material freely, save someone else’s only with their permission, and credit them if you share it.
Frequently asked questions
The questions people send us most often about this tool, answered plainly.
Yes. There is no charge, no account and no usage cap tied to an email address. It sits alongside our paid growth services, but nothing on this page asks you to buy anything.
No, and you never should. This tool only reads the public link you paste. Any downloader that asks for your Facebook email and password is a credential-harvesting risk, whatever it promises in exchange.
No. Those videos are only served to accounts Facebook has already decided may see them, so no tool can reach them without borrowing someone’s login. Any site claiming to do it is lying or phishing. The link has to point at a public post.
Yes. The short fb.watch address the mobile app produces points at the same public post as the long facebook.com URL, so either form is fine to paste.
Facebook does not notify anyone when a public video is watched or saved. That is precisely why the responsibility to respect the uploader’s rights sits with you.
You get the file Facebook serves for that post, which depends on what the uploader provided and how Facebook re-encoded it. A video shot and uploaded in low resolution cannot be improved by downloading it — no tool adds detail that was never stored.
Only if you made it or the creator has agreed. Re-uploading someone else’s video as your own can breach copyright and Facebook’s terms, and rights-holder complaints are one of the fastest ways to lose a Page.
The page, the form and the link validation are finished; the download service behind them is still being connected to a licensed provider. Nothing you paste is sent anywhere in the meantime.
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Re-cutting that footage for TikTok?
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