Free Facebook video downloader: HD, MP4 and MP3
Paste a Facebook link above and this Facebook video downloader lists every file Facebook offers for that video, with its size, so you choose what to save instead of taking whatever you are given. It runs online, in the browser you already use, and it costs nothing.
- HD with the sound built in. The sharpest version Facebook keeps as a single file with picture and sound — usually 720p — and a smaller SD copy beside it.
- MP4 that plays anywhere. H.264 video with AAC audio, exactly as Facebook serves it. Nothing is re-encoded and no watermark is added.
- MP3 when you only want the sound. The audio from any public video or Reel can come back as an MP3 file.
- No app and no account. There is nothing to install and nothing to sign up for, on a phone, a tablet or a computer.
- Every kind of link. Feed posts, Reels, Watch, finished live videos, Stories and photos, including fb.watch addresses and the share links the app copies.
What you can download from Facebook
If it is public on Facebook, it can be saved here. That covers:
- Videos in posts from people, pages and public groups, including ones posted years ago
- Reels, kept in their original vertical format
- Facebook Watch episodes, shows and longer videos from publishers
- Live videos and gaming streams, once the broadcast has ended and the recording is published
- Stories — called My Day in the Philippines — while they are still up, which is 24 hours
- Photos, at the largest size Facebook keeps
What cannot be downloaded
Private videos, videos shared only with friends, posts inside closed or private groups, and anything on a private profile cannot be fetched from a link: reaching them takes a Facebook login that is allowed to see them, and this site never asks for yours. If you can already watch one, though, the private video downloader can save it from the page source your own browser has. A video posted as a comment often has no address of its own, so there is nothing to paste; Messenger chats, whole photo albums and entire pages in one go are outside what the tool does as well.
Public Instagram Reels, videos and photos can be saved as well, on a page of their own: Instagram Video Downloader
Public TikTok videos and photo posts can be saved too, on a page of their own: TikTok Video Downloader
Public Pinterest videos, pictures and GIFs can be saved too, on a page of their own: Pinterest Video Downloader
Public Douyin videos can be saved too, straight from Douyin, on a page of their own: Douyin Video Downloader
HD or SD: which quality to choose
Facebook re-encodes every upload into several versions. Two of them are kept as complete files with the sound inside — HD and SD — and those are the two any downloader can hand you. Facebook’s 1080p and higher versions exist only as separate silent video and audio streams for its own player, so a site that promises 1080p or 4K for every Facebook video is promising a file Facebook does not offer.
- HD: usually 720p — sharp on a phone, a laptop or a TV, and the right choice for almost everything.
- SD: a lower resolution, often 360p, for slow connections or tight storage. A 12-second Reel we tested came to 3.6 MB in HD and under 1 MB in SD.
- MP3: the sound alone, when the picture does not matter.
If a video only offers SD, the upload itself was low resolution, and no tool can add detail that was never there.
Download on iPhone, Android or PC
The downloader works in the browser you already have, so there is no app to install on any of them. What changes from one device to the next is where the file ends up.
iPhone and iPad
Safari saves downloads to the Files app, not to Photos. Open Files, go to Downloads, then tap Share and Save Video to put the clip in your camera roll.
Android
The file goes to your Downloads folder and shows up in the gallery shortly after. If nothing happens when you tap Download, the browser is usually waiting for permission to save files.
Windows PC, Mac and Linux
Any current browser saves the MP4 to its download folder, usually Downloads in your user folder, and it opens in the built-in player or imports straight into an editor.
Keep it one tap away
In Chrome on Android, open the menu and choose Add to Home screen; in Safari on iPhone, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. The page then opens in its own window, like an app, without installing anything.
Facebook video downloader app and browser extensions
The website needs nothing installed, and for the occasional video it is the quickest route. If you save Facebook videos often, the same downloader also comes as an app and as browser extensions that skip the copy-and-paste step. All of them are free, none asks you to sign in, and they work with public videos only.
- Chrome and Edge extensions. Hover over a Facebook video and a Save video button appears on the player; click it and the qualities open here, ready to download.
- Firefox add-on. The same button, and the only one that also runs on a phone, in Firefox for Android.
- Android app. Paste a link, choose HD, SD or audio, and it downloads in the background with a progress notification.
Save just the audio as MP3
Interviews, live sets, lectures and podcast clips are often worth keeping as sound alone. Choose Convert to MP3 and the audio track is extracted on our server and handed back as a standard MP3 that plays in any music app, offline. Short clips convert while you wait; longer ones join a queue that shows your place in it.
Why a Facebook video won’t download
Four causes account for almost every failure, and three of them take under a minute to check.
- The post is not public. Open the link in a private window while logged out. If it does not play there, it cannot be reached from here either.
- The video is gone. Whoever posted it deleted it, or it disappeared along with their account.
- The link is not a video link. A profile, a group or a search result is not enough; copy the link of the video itself.
- The broadcast is still live. Wait for it to end and for the recording to be published, which usually takes a few minutes.
Region-locked videos play for some people and not for others, and there is no copy of them that can be fetched on your behalf.
How this Facebook video downloader works
The downloader reads a video from Facebook’s own player data, the same information the site uses to play it for you. The file then reaches you directly from Facebook’s servers instead of being copied to ours first, so it downloads at your connection’s full speed and in exactly the quality Facebook serves. The first request for a video waits for that answer; after that it is answered from a short-lived cache, which is why a link that is doing the rounds resolves almost at once. The links you paste are never tied to you, videos are never stored on this site, and an MP3 is deleted within 72 hours of being made.
