Social media has become an essential part of our daily lives. As a result, most of us have made accounts on more than one social media platform.
While there are multiple social media platforms to satisfy our needs these days, back in the old days, there was only one named Facebook for this purpose.
It is still the most popular social media platform, with billions of active users belonging to multiple demographics.
However, it is worth mentioning that it has evolved as much more than just a social media platform used by people to interact with each other.
Facebook now hosts billions of videos, and people also use it to reach out to their followers.
You will find live streams, podcasts, entertainment videos, and more. Recently, it has introduced features like Facebook video stories and Facebook reels.
The first feature allows users to upload videos as their stories; other users can watch these stories for 24 hours only, and after the said time, these videos are visible to the person who uploaded them.
The second feature was launched to compete with TikTok, which has become quite popular lately. This feature allows users to upload short videos after editing and selecting background music for videos.
If you are a Facebook user who browses it daily for entertainment, you must have thought about downloading videos from Facebook.
However, it is observed that most of us need to learn how to download videos from this valuable library of videos owned by the largest social media platform in the world.
There is no need to worry as we have discussed some easy methods to help you.
Read on to learn more.
Video Downloading Software
The first method to download videos from Facebook is pretty obvious. You will turn to video downloading software for this purpose.
Such software will download videos from Facebook and multiple other websites.
However, before you make up your mind to use it for video download from Facebook, you need to answer one question “Is this solution worth it?”. The answer is no. If you only want to download videos from Facebook, why do you need to use video-downloading software for this purpose? Moreover, you will only be able to use it when you pay for its premium package. Additionally, it will be only operational on your Windows PC.
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Web-Based Facebook Video Downloader
Another method to download your favorite videos from Facebook is to use an online Facebook video downloader.
This method is relatively easier and, above all, free of cost.
Moreover, you won’t have to face the hassle of installing an extension on your browser; you only need the URL of the video from Facebook that you want to download. Simply copy the URL of the video and paste it into the given box of the video downloader.
Once you tap the download button, it will validate the provided URL. After that, you will see the video downloaded to your device’s storage.
The best thing about using such a tool is you can access it from any device because it is a web-based utility.
The online Facebook video downloader can also download Facebook stories and reels.
Facebook Video Downloading Browser Extension
This method is only suitable for Laptop and desktop computers as you have to install a dedicated browser extension to download videos from Facebook.
Once you download the extension from the web for your default web browsers, such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, or Opera, you can easily download videos from Facebook.
All you have to do is browse the social media platform, and you will see a download pop-up as soon as the extension recognizes a video available for download.
You just need to click on the pop-up download option, and it will start downloading the video for you.
Downloading Videos Without Any Tool
You will be surprised to learn that downloading videos from Facebook without using any tool is very much possible.
However, this method involves using a PC and slight modification to the URL of the video.
The process is quite simple; you have to copy the URL of the video you want to download.
Once you have copied the URL, open a new tab on your browser and paste it into the address bar. After doing it, replace ‘www’ with ‘mbasic’. Upon doing it, press enter, and you will see the post containing the video in the new tab. Now right-click on the video and choose to open it in a new tab. You will see the video in the tab only as soon as you do it.
You can now save it in your device’s local storage by selecting ‘Save video as’. You can choose the folder directory where you want to save the video. The video downloaded using this method will be of low resolution and quality. Therefore, it is better to use other methods to download Facebook videos.
