To download videos from Facebook, paste the link of a public video or Reel in the box above, press Download and pick HD or SD. The MP4 saves straight to your phone or computer, with its sound, at the quality Facebook published — online, with nothing to install and no Facebook login of yours.
Can you download videos from Facebook directly?
Only your own, and only in some cases. Since late September 2025 every new video is posted as a reel, and Facebook lets you save reels you created: in the app, open your profile, go to Reels, pick the video, tap Options and choose Download reel. Videos posted before that change keep whatever download options they had. A Live broadcast you ran can be saved from a computer after it ends, and Settings → Accounts Centre → Your information and permissions → Export your information builds an archive of everything you have posted.
Even those buttons have gaps. They work only on the phone app for reels, the download is muted when your reel uses someone else's original audio, and there is no button at all for anybody else's video. That last case is what this page is for: it reads the same file Facebook plays to every viewer and hands it to you.
Downloading someone else's Facebook video
If a video is public — it plays for anyone, logged in or not — you can download it here from its link. Saving a clip to watch offline, keeping a copy of a video you appear in, or archiving something you have permission to use is ordinary. Re-uploading someone else's video as your own is not, and it is the fastest way to collect a copyright strike.
When in doubt, ask the person who posted it: most creators say yes when they are credited. The longer piece on what is and is not allowed covers the details.
How to copy a Facebook video link
On a computer the reliable route is the timestamp: click the date under the poster's name and the address bar shows a permanent URL for that one post. The Share button works too — choose Copy link rather than any of the network options.
The mobile app has no address bar, so tap Share or the three-dot menu on the post and pick Copy link. A link copied that way usually carries tracking parameters; they are harmless, and the box ignores them. A link to somebody's profile, a page or a group is not enough — the address has to point at one specific video.
Which quality to choose: HD or SD
Facebook does not store one file per video. When something is uploaded it is re-encoded into several versions so the player can switch with the viewer's connection, and two of them come as complete MP4 files you can download: HD, which is 720p, and SD, usually 360p. The list above shows what actually exists for that video, with the size beside each.
Facebook also keeps a 1080p version of many videos, but only as separate picture and sound streams for its own player, never as one downloadable file. A downloader advertising 1080p, 2K or 4K for Facebook is either stitching those streams together or promising something it does not deliver. Pick HD for a large screen or for editing, and SD to save data or space.
Why some videos only come in SD
If SD is the only option, the limit is the upload rather than this tool. The usual causes are a video recorded at a low resolution, an old upload from when Facebook capped quality harder, a re-share of something already compressed, or the replay of a live broadcast, which is encoded for speed rather than detail.
No downloader can recover detail that was never uploaded. Anything advertising "4K upscaling" for Facebook video is inventing pixels, not restoring them.
How big a downloaded video is
We measured instead of guessing. A 12-second Reel came to 3.6 MB in HD and under 1 MB in SD; recent long videos ran between about 2.5 and 12 MB per minute in HD and 1 to 3 MB per minute in SD, depending on how much movement was in the picture. An hour-long video is therefore roughly 150 to 750 MB in HD — and the size of every option is shown before you save.
Does downloading lower the quality?
No. You receive the same file Facebook serves its own player. Nothing is re-encoded, nothing is watermarked and no logo is stamped into a corner — re-encoding would cost quality, add minutes to the wait and buy you nothing. The file is an ordinary MP4 that plays on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and every current browser, and imports into Premiere, Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve, CapCut and iMovie without conversion.
If you only want the sound of a video — a talk, a song, a voice message — the MP3 converter takes the audio instead.
Download videos from Facebook on iPhone and Android
The whole flow runs in a mobile browser and there is nothing to install. On Android the file lands in Downloads and shows up in your gallery shortly after.
On iPhone, Safari saves to the Files app, not to Photos. Open Files, look under Downloads, then use the share sheet and Save Video to put it in your camera roll. The mobile guide covers both platforms, including what changes in Chrome and Firefox on iOS.
Saving to a PC or Mac
On a desktop the flow is shorter than on a phone, because a browser on Windows, macOS or Linux writes straight to a folder instead of into an app's storage.
Where the file lands
Wherever your browser saves downloads, which is usually the Downloads folder in your user directory; if your browser asks every time, it goes where you point it. Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari all behave the same way here.
Right-clicking the video on Facebook does not work
Facebook's player has its own context menu with no Save video as in it, and the page holds the address of a stream rather than of a file. That is why a tool exists at all: the work is reading which versions were published and handing you a direct address for one, not getting around anything.
Large files and slow connections
A long video in HD can run to several hundred megabytes, and the transfer comes from Facebook's own servers rather than through this site, so it moves at whatever your connection manages. If it matters more that it finishes than that it is sharp, take SD.
Is it safe to download videos from Facebook here?
The things that make a downloader risky are absent from this one. There is nothing to install — no app, no APK, no browser extension asking to read every site you visit. Nothing asks for your Facebook password, which no legitimate downloader ever needs. The video file comes from Facebook's own servers, not from a copy stored here, and the links you paste are not tied to you.
Two warning signs worth knowing anywhere else: a site that asks you to log in to Facebook through it, and a "downloader" that wants you to install something before it will show you a single file. Either one is a reason to close the tab.
When a video won’t download
Four causes account for almost every failure, and you can confirm three of them in under a minute.
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. If it is a video you can watch yourself but others cannot, the private video downloader saves it from the page your own browser already has.
The video is gone, deleted by the poster or removed with the account. The link is not a video link but a profile, a group or a search result. The broadcast is still running — a live stream cannot be saved mid-flight; wait until it ends and Facebook publishes the recording. Region-locked material plays for some viewers and not others, and there is no version of it that can be fetched on your behalf. The troubleshooting guide works through the rarer cases.