Save Facebook videos to your device to watch later

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Save Facebook videos to your

device to watch later
By Alina Bradford June 24, 2020
3-4 minutes

Save Facebook videos to your device to watch

later

Though you can save Facebook posts to watch later,

sometimes you want to download a video you’ve found on
your feed. Whether it’s a how-to video that you want to save
for when you’re working on a project, or a funny video that
you want to share with friends, you can download Facebook
videos from your feed to your device with just a few simple
steps.

How to download a video from Facebook

using a computer

This trick only works on Facebook.com and won’t work on

the app, so you’ll need to go to Facebook on your browser,
first. Then, find the video you want to download and right-
click on the video. Next, click on the option Show video
URL.

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A little box with the video’s URL will pop up. Copy the link
and then paste it in a new tab or window’s address bar.
Then, change the the www in the address to mbasic. So, for
example, if the video’s URL is https://www.facebook.com
/DigitalTrends/videos/593414421380089, you are going to
change it to https://mbasic.facebook.com/DigitalTrends
/videos/593414421380089. Once you’re done, tap Enter on
your keyboard. What this does is change the address to a
mobile basic interface address, which will then let you
download the video. If you did it right, the screen will look a
little funny, like you are trying to look at the Facebook app
on your browser.

Next, right click on the video and choose Open link in new
tab from the menu. In the new tab, the video won’t have any
of the Facebook additions like comments and a like button.
It will just be the video.

From there, right click on the video and choose Save video
as… from the menu. Then, save it to your computer like you
normally would any other video or photo. Now you can play
the video with whatever video player you have installed on
your computer.

How to download a Facebook video from the

app

If you don’t have a computer, downloading from the app

using your phone will require some help. First, you’ll need to
download a third-party app to your phone that gives the

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Facebook app extra features. For this demonstration, we

used the Friendly for Facebook app.

Once the app is downloaded, it will ask you to log into your
Facebook account. Log in as you normally would. Then, the
app will open up Facebook and it will look exactly like you
are using the Facebook app.

Next, find the video you want to download. At the bottom of

the video post you will see a little alien icon next to the
share button. Tap the alien icon. From the menu that pops
up, tap on the Video Downloading… option. That’s it. The
video will download and save to your phone.

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