Facebook Video Downloader

How to download a Facebook video, step by step

In the Facebook app, open the video or Reel, tap the Share arrow beneath it and choose Copy link. In a web browser you can click the post's timestamp or its three-dot menu and pick Copy link, or copy the URL straight from the address bar. Paste whichever link you have into the box at the top of this page and press Download.

Within a few seconds you get the video as an MP4 with its original sound, in 720p HD whenever Facebook has an HD copy of that clip. On a computer and on Android the file saves to your Downloads folder, ready for your gallery or media player to pick up.

iPhone works a little differently: Safari saves the file through the share sheet into the Files app rather than straight to your camera roll. To move a clip into Photos, open Files, tap the MP4 and choose Save Video. No account or software is needed at any point.

What you can download from Facebook

Regular video posts and Watch clips come down as clean MP4s with their original audio, in 720p HD whenever Facebook has an HD copy. You get Facebook's own file, not a screen recording.

Reels download in HD the same way. That matters because Facebook's app has no dependable save button for Reels, so pasting the link here is often the only way to keep one for offline viewing.

Stories aren't supported: Facebook only shows them to signed-in viewers, and SnapDownloader never asks for your Facebook login, so a Story link returns nothing. Live videos can only be saved once the broadcast has finished and become a replay. Facebook has said it may remove older Live broadcasts — its stated window is around 30 days after they air — so it's worth grabbing an archived stream promptly rather than assuming it will stay up.

Which Facebook links work, and which don't

The tool accepts Facebook's standard link shapes: a Watch video (facebook.com/watch/?v=…), a Reel (facebook.com/reel/…), a share link (facebook.com/share/v/…), an fb.watch short link, and mobile m.facebook.com URLs. Both the Share menu's Copy link and the browser address bar give you a URL in the right shape.

What won't resolve is anything behind a login. Private profiles, closed-group videos and friends-only posts aren't served to the open web, so no link-paste tool can reach them. A bare profile or Page address isn't a video link either — you need the URL of the specific post. If a link copied from another app fails, open the post in a normal browser and copy the clean facebook.com link instead.

HD quality, sound and the file you get

Every download is a file Facebook itself serves, so quality matches what Facebook has: an MP4 with sound, in 720p HD when the video has an HD copy and in SD when it doesn't. Facebook keeps separate SD and HD copies of most videos and the tool always takes the HD one — there's no quality menu, format picker, WebM or MP3 option to work through.

If a Facebook download has ever played silent for you elsewhere, that's because Facebook also streams videos as separate picture and sound tracks, and some tools save the picture track alone. This downloader takes Facebook's ready-to-play MP4 instead, which already has the sound in it, so the file you save plays complete with audio and you don't have to do a thing.

What you save is the original file Facebook serves for that video, with nothing added and nothing re-compressed on top of it.

Why a Facebook download fails

By far the most common reason is that the video isn't public. Private profiles, closed-group videos and friends-only posts can't be fetched by SnapDownloader or any legitimate tool, because the file isn't served to the open web. Any site that claims to download private or group videos is either overpromising or fishing for your Facebook password, which you should never enter.

Timing accounts for most of the rest. A Live video can't be captured while the stream is still running — wait until it ends — and an older broadcast may already have been taken down, since Facebook has said it can remove Live videos around 30 days after they air. Story links never work at all, because Facebook only shows Stories to signed-in viewers.

If a download comes back in SD rather than 720p HD, it's because Facebook only has an SD copy of that video — the tool always takes the HD copy when one exists, but it can't add detail that isn't there. Region-locked, age-gated, deleted or taken-down videos fail too, because the link resolves to nothing. When a download won't start, copy a fresh link straight from Facebook and check the post still opens in a logged-out browser.