To save a Facebook video: open the video, tap the three dots or Share and choose Copy link, paste it into the box below, and download an HD MP4. Free, no app, no login — public videos only.
Facebook links fail more than any other platform on this site, and the reason is almost never technical. It is that Facebook has the most complicated privacy model of any social network, and "I can see it" and "it is public" are not the same statement.
This guide is about working out which links will actually resolve before you waste time on the ones that cannot. For what the tool does mechanically, see the Facebook Downloader.
On most platforms a post is public or it is not. On Facebook, visibility is set per post, chosen from a list that includes Public, Friends, Friends except…, Specific friends, Only me, and custom lists. The same person can post one public video and one friends-only video an hour apart.
So when you are logged in, you see a merged view: public posts plus everything shared with you as a friend, a group member, or a follower. That view is yours alone. This tool has no account, so it sees only the Public layer.
This is why a video that plays perfectly in your feed returns nothing here. Nothing is broken — you are simply looking at it through a permission you have and the tool does not.
Pages are the best case by a wide margin. Page content is public by default — that is the entire point of a Page — so videos posted by businesses, news outlets, public figures and brands almost always resolve.
Watch URLs, the /watch/ links, are generally public and generally fine.
Personal profiles are a coin flip. It depends entirely on what that person chose for that post, and you cannot tell from the link.
Groups are almost always out. Private groups require membership; even public groups sometimes gate media behind a sign-in.
Stories are not reachable at all, and never will be through this tool.
Before you conclude anything is broken, do this. It takes half a minute and answers the question definitively.
Open the link in a private browsing window. Incognito in Chrome, Private in Safari or Firefox. You are now logged out, which is exactly the position this tool is in.
If the video plays, it is genuinely public and it will resolve here — if it does not, that is a transient failure worth retrying.
If you get a login wall, a "content isn't available" message, or a redirect to the sign-in page, the post is not public. No tool without your Facebook credentials will reach it, and any service claiming otherwise is either asking you to hand over your login or lying about what it does.
Facebook blocks requests originating from datacentre IP ranges as an anti-automation measure. Requests are therefore routed through a residential proxy so they arrive looking like ordinary home traffic.
That works, but it adds a network hop, which means Facebook links resolve more slowly and fail more often than TikTok or YouTube links. A meaningful share of those failures are transient and clear on a second attempt a minute later.
Worth trying twice before giving up. If a genuinely public link fails repeatedly across a few minutes, extraction has probably broken for that URL shape — Facebook changes its site regularly and that breaks extraction periodically. It gets repaired on the backend; nothing you do differently will work around it that day.
Other limits: media over 30 minutes is rejected outright, there is a ceiling of 20 requests per minute per IP, and the resolve step gives up after 20 seconds rather than hanging.
Facebook publishes far fewer renditions than YouTube — typically an SD and an HD version, sometimes a third between them. Expect two or three buttons. Eight is the maximum shown, but Facebook rarely comes close.
Best quality (auto) takes the best stream at 1080p or below and merges it with the best audio into one MP4. For Facebook this is nearly always correct, because the alternatives are few and the top rendition usually sits under the ceiling anyway.
Facebook re-encodes video on upload, so nothing you download is the uploader's original export. That quality was lost before the post went live and no tool recovers it.
Long-form Facebook video — recorded talks, lectures, khutbas — is a common case where people want audio rather than picture. Use the Audio Downloader with the same link rather than converting afterwards, and note the 30-minute ceiling applies there too.
You are logged in and it is probably not public. Facebook sets visibility per post. Open the link in a private window — if you hit a login wall, so does the tool.
Anything posted by a Page. Page content is public by default, so it resolves far more consistently than posts from personal profiles.
No. Group content requires membership, and there is no login step in this tool by design.
Facebook blocks datacentre traffic, so requests are routed through a residential proxy. That extra hop costs speed and adds failure points.
Probably not. Facebook failures are often transient. Try once more after a minute, then check the link in a private window before concluding anything.
No. Stories are not reachable through this tool.