Public feed videos, Watch clips, Page posts, Reels, and shared videos — paste the link and pick the quality. Most other tools strip the HD option to save bandwidth. We don't.
Facebook's UI hides the share URL behind a few different buttons depending on whether you're on a phone, on desktop, or on a Page. Here's the universal flow.
On mobile or desktop, tap or click the video's timestamp — the small grey text under the post that says "5 minutes ago", "Yesterday", or a date. This opens the video in its dedicated page, and the address bar now shows the canonical URL.
Tap the address bar and select the full URL — it'll look like facebook.com/…/videos/123456789/. Alternatively use the Share button on the video and choose Copy link; that gives you a shorter fb.watch/… URL which also works.
We accept both long form (facebook.com/username/videos/123…, facebook.com/watch/?v=123…, facebook.com/reel/123…) and short form (fb.watch/…). The resolver figures out which type you sent.
You'll see the preview thumbnail plus three buttons: HD MP4 (largest, sharpest), SD MP4 (smaller, faster), and Audio (MP3). Tap your pick — the file lands in Downloads on Android/Windows, or Photos on iOS.
Facebook serves video through 14 different URL patterns and three different stream formats. Most downloaders only handle one or two.
Facebook only stores HD if the uploader's settings allowed it. We check both the HD and SD variant URLs and surface whichever is actually available — without lying about a "1080p" option that resolves to 360p.
Most quick-share workflows produce a fb.watch/abc123/ link. We follow the redirect chain server-side, resolve the real video, and skip the throttled-mobile fallback Facebook serves to anonymous browsers.
You don't have to pick a tool per Facebook surface. The same input handles Watch shows, Reels, Page videos, profile videos, group videos (public groups only), and event videos.
Useful for podcasts that publishers cross-post to Facebook. We demux the audio stream into an MP3 without re-encoding, so the file stays small and the quality stays intact.
Some "Facebook downloaders" ask you to paste a cookie or log in with Facebook. We don't. The resolve happens server-side with no authentication, on publicly-available URLs only.
Downloads come named page-or-author_facebook-id_HD.mp4 so you can re-find them in your downloads folder a week later. No video_12340987234.mp4.
Facebook's user base skews older and wider than TikTok or Instagram. The use cases reflect that.
Aunts, uncles, and grandparents upload birthday and event videos to Facebook because that's where they live online. Saving them locally means they survive even if the relative deletes the post or the account.
Many small-business Facebook Pages post short tutorials, product demos, and FAQ videos. Sales and support teams save copies for offline training.
Journalists save video posts as part of evidence and record-keeping. Once a post gets deleted or a page goes down, the original file in your local archive is the only copy.
Civic meetings, concerts, and community events get broadcast on Facebook Live and then stay as archived videos. Saving the recording is the easiest way to reference it without scrubbing through a long live stream.
Sellers post short demo clips of items for sale. Buyers save the video for reference before deciding — especially useful for second-hand purchases where the listing might disappear when sold.
Tap or click the video's timestamp (e.g. "2 hours ago") under the post. That opens the video in its own page — the URL in the address bar is the share link. Or use the Share button and pick Copy link, which gives a shorter fb.watch/… URL.
HD is usually 720p or 1080p, SD is 360p or 480p. HD is sharper and three times larger. We surface both so you can pick based on your storage and connection.
No. Only videos visible to anyone without logging in — public Pages, public profiles, public events — work. If you can only see the video while signed in, the link won't resolve here.
Yes. Reels use the same CDN as feed videos. Paste the facebook.com/reel/… URL and you'll get an MP4 with the same HD/SD/MP3 options.
Live broadcasts in progress cannot be downloaded — there's no file yet, only a stream. Once the broadcast ends and Facebook archives it as a regular video, the URL works like any other.
Yes. Watch (long-form video) works the same way as feed videos. Some Watch shows are licensed third-party content and may be region-locked; those can fail.
Facebook only stores HD when the original uploader opted in. If the page owner turned HD off, no HD file exists on Facebook's servers — and we can't conjure one. You'll see SD listed and HD greyed out.
Yes. Safari treats the download as a normal file. You may need to tap and hold the download button and choose Download Linked File, then check your Files app under Downloads.
Not on our side. Facebook's longest archived videos (a few hours, multi-GB) are supported — though downloading them obviously takes longer on a slow connection.