I often find myself download videos from facebook and I don’t use firefox, chrome extensions as they make browsing slow instead I try to find the direct download link, and in most of the cases I do find them 🙂
So, here I am sharing how you can grab the direct download link for the videos uploaded directly on facebook.
Sample video uploaded directly to facebook.
step 1. Goto the dedicated page for the video uploaded to the facebook.
– Click on the title of the video and you will be taken to the single page for the video where all the comments for the video appears beneath the video.
step 2. View-Source the page
Then view the source of the page.
step 3. Search for .mp4
In the source, search for .mp4, there are just too many .mp4 links stick to the first one that will do the job. After you find the .mp4 link, copy exactly start from https, as shown in above figure exactly to the link where red line ends, just ignore the last three \u002522\u00252C\u002522. After you have copied the text (say links) goto step 4.
step 4. copy the path
Visit the http://www.samundra.com.np/facebook-video/ and paste the link you just copied. And hit the “Get Download Link” button. The decoded text will be shown in the text box which is the direct download link for the video uploaded in facebook.
Update (6/7/2015): The easiest way to get the video link is through the “options” button on the facebook video itself. Click on option > select embed video and then copy and paste the source. There you will see the direct video link.
Hope you find it useful.
http://www.samundra.com.np/facebook-video/
This webpage no longer exists. Can it be revived?
Recently, I migrated the site and thus some of the links might be broken. I will try to fix these links as soon as possible. Thanks for reminding me.
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where do you see the source of the page??
You have to visit facebook page that has the video in it, and then view source that page.
How can i find the folder where videos are on mobile browser an not app?
Sorry for delayed reply! I Unfortunately, I haven’t tested this on mobile browser yet.
Great tool ! Thanks a lot !
Thank you Oliver!
How do i download with the DL link?
Sorry, i got it now! xD
Very helpful, thanks for sharing this! 🙂
very nice
can you give the source code of this converter pls ?
Source code is available in github https://github.com/samundra/facebook_video
Hi, maybe it is a bit unashamed question, but could you post me a way to do this programatically? I am a manager of a small group and we are writting a small desktop-based facebook client for a company. This would be useful. Thanks, and I am sorry if my request is wrong.
Uh, I’ve just seen it in the header it is unicode. I don’t know anything about this, but I will send your site to the programmers. Thank you again
Nice Bro.You just made a nice unicode extract script.I like This.I always happy to see you 🙂
Nice bro. There are often videos in facebook which I wanted to save for later, this is going to be a great help 🙂 Thanks.
My Pleasure 😀