As a Facebook addict, you know that Fb contains millions of unique videos right after YouTube. One big problem with this videos are, there is no direct or official way to download the Facebook video to your device. If you are browsing Facebook through your desktop version, you can’t find a download button anywhere same as YouTube. Similarly In mobile app also there is no option to save or download the streaming videos.
So if you really love a video and want to share on other social media like Whatsapp, Instagram, you need to download a copy to your device. Also, if you want to show that video to a particular audience, it is necessary to download a copy to either mobile or PC. Then how is it possible if Facebook did not allow you to download videos? Here are some of the well-known methods to download any video that you like on Facebook.
Download Facebook video in PC using any browser
#1:- Download in SD Quality
This method works with every browser but you will get videos in SD quality. I am mentioning this because, if you want low-quality videos, you can try this. Once again, I remind you that, you won’t get HD quality videos using this method.
Step 1:- Login to Facebook and Play the video you want to download.
Step 2:- While the video is being played, right click on the video. There you can see the option to Copy the Video URL.
Step 3:- Copy the video URL and paste it in a new tab window. Then press Enter to view the URL.
Step 4:- Now Change the URL’s www portion to m. Just check the following link and you will understand how to replace the URL.
Once you enter the mobile version, you can see a change in quality. The desktop version will be now shown in a mobile version. Check following links to understand how to change the URL.
Original Video URL:
https://www.facebook.com/FoodNetwork/videos/10155534349846727/
Now you need to replace the www portion with m. So the final URL will be like
https://m.facebook.com/FoodNetwork/videos/10155534349846727/
Step 5:- Then press enter or go to the newly created URL.
Step 6:- Now play the video from the newly created URL.
While the video being played, right click on the video. There you can see the option to Save the Video. Save option may change from browser to browser.
#2:- Download Facebook video in HD Quality
Downloading Facebook video in SD or low quality is very easy. By following the above steps, you can achieve it. There are a lot of websites providing the same. But downloading videos in HD quality are a little bit tricky process. No websites are providing this feature. You don’t need to install any plugins or software for downloading videos in 720p or 1080p quality. Just follow our simple steps.
IMPORTANT UPDATE
MANY USERS COMPLAINS THAT, THIS METHOD IS NOT WORKING ANYMORE. THE REASON THEY MENTION IS THAT hd_src OPTION IS NOT SEEN WHILE LOOKING THE SOURCE CODE. YOU WON’T FIND HD_SRC IF YOU HAVE LOG IN TO YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT. SO OPEN THE VIDEO PAGE IN A PRIVATE WINDOW (INCOGNITO IN GOOGLE CHROME) AND LOOK FOR THE SOURCE CODE. YOU WILL DEFINITELY ABLE TO DOWNLOAD VIDEO WITHOUT ANY SOFTWARE.
Step 1:- Couple of steps are the same for downloading the video in SD and HD quality. Same as we do for SD quality, Play the video, then copy the URL of the video and open that video in a new PRIVATE Tab.
Step 2:- Once you are at the video page, Right click and View Page Source of that particular page.
Step 3:- Now search on the page source for following word “hd_src“. You can see a long URL just after this hd_src. Just copy that whole URL till the end and paste it in another tab.
NB:- Sometimes, you can see hd_src= null. This means, that video is only available in SD quality. This is because the uploader of that video has uploaded a low-quality video.
Also, there may be multiple hd_src followed by long URL. At that point, try both of the URL.
Step 4:- Go to that copied URL.
Step 5:- There you can see the video in HD Quality. Right-click and Save video wherever you want.
Third Party tools for downloading Facebook Video in HD quality
#1:- Savefrom.net Supports HD download
There are many online websites providing FB video download option. But most of them won’t support downloading the video in HD quality. SaveFrom.net makes downloading video content from various websites in a simple and convenient way. Using the service you can download almost all kinds of media files like audios, video, from almost all social networking websites.
Follow the steps to download from savefrom.net
Step 1:- Copy the Video URL from which you want to download the video.
Step 2:- Paste the URL in savefrom.net URL box.
Once you paste the URL in the box, a download box will auto-generate with a download button. Again there will be two option. HD and SD. Choose HD and click download button to download the video.
#2:- FBDown Video Downloader Chrome Extension
This is one of the time saving and easy way to download FB videos. You can add this extension to Google Chrome and download facebook videos in both qualities. There were some compatibility issues with the extension and later the developer team resolved it. Now everything looks fine and updated with fast servers. Follow the steps to download videos, using this extension.
Step 1:- Download and install FBDown extension from chrome store.
Step 2:- Reload the page where your video is playing. Restart your browser if necessary.
Step 3:- Now click on the extension and you can see the video in both qualities. Video with more size is the HD quality. Click on that to download it to your PC.
Conclusion
This guide will be helpful for those who are trying to download facebook videos in both HD and SD quality. No need to worry about installing third-party tools as they may harm your device. If you are not satisfied with those methods without any 3rd party tools, you can try the methods mentioned at the bottom. You can download HD videos, even in 1080p, 720p and even in 4k Quality.
No longer works…they changed the page code.
It doesn’t work anymore. I can see “hd_src:” but video is in low resolution.
Let me check sir..
It doesn’t work anymore
When trying to download the HD version and doing right click and View Page Source, there is no longer a ‘hd_src’ to search for.
Bro this is still Working. All you need to do is copy the Video URL and open it in a new Private Window. I mean Incognito Window will work in Google Chrome and Private window will work for Mozilla Firefox. Hope a reply soon.
THANK YOU!!!!! I never had to do ‘private window’ before. But that has fixed my issue. Thank you so much. Very much appreciated.
That’s nice to hear from you, Michelle. Happy to hear that, it worked for you.
Says “You must log in to continue” since its a friends video.
Thank you for your great info!
However when I open the video in new private window, it asks to log in to Facebook (the video was posted in a private group).
So no way then to do this?
Ya. None of the tricks work for Secret groups, sir. I will come up with one soon.
Thank you for your reply.
And looking forward to what you come up with!
The so called HD is actually 720p. It is spread into 2 links only, SD and HD. FB has totally banned the downloading of 1080p videos.
Yeh. You are right. The maximum downloadable quality is 720p.
720p is also unavaible. Check this video:
https://web.facebook.com/173803066360416/videos/1842999155826884/
You can watch video in 1080p or 720p but if you download video from link “hd_src” there is only 240p.
No sir. You are wrong. I checked the URL and it is possible to fetch the 720p quality video. It is about 14 Mb in size. Also, you can download the SD quality video (URL after sd_src). Its 240p and only 2 Mb in size.
Thank you for your answer but a file after link “hd_src” is 4,78 MB and “sd_src” is 2,37 MB. Checked in Firefox and Chrome (incognito mode).
There is printscreen:
https://files.tinypic.pl/i/00975/ys00c5i89o22.jpg
I don’t know why but I cant get 720p.
I found a solution, 720p is avaible in different place now, after: “manifest:[],video:[{url:”
Here: https://files.tinypic.pl/i/00975/ywuxjh88opep.jpg
Thanks for sharing.
This doesn’t work for 1080p videos.
Yes, sir. Not working for 1080. It only supports 720p which is so called HD.
How to download facebook PRIVATE video? Once you go to the View Page Source, you can’t find hd_src:
I think you can only see the hd_src: if the video is PUBLIC. Is there any other way to download Private facebook videos? Thanks.
You can’t download private videos using this method.
How can I download hd video in closed group?
(I am a member in that group.)
Facebook asks to be connected even on incognito mode, so no access to the code source of the video…
It does work!!! The source code option. Just do as it says, open the source code in an “incognito” window. There you will be able to find the hd_src text. Thanks man.
It’s been working great for me too. Except what if the FB live video was shot using Zoom, hd_src doesn’t show up. Is there another way to download?
Okay, I tried method 2, that downloads the video from the source page. I did a few videos and it worked flawlessly. It was 720p and the sound was clear. When I wanted to download another video I lost the sound with the fb video. After I copied and pasted the page source url the sound button was grayed out; it was disconnected. What happened how can I fix this?
I use the site getmyfb.com to save photos or videos from Facebook. Have you tried?