In this post I Will show you how to download Facebook videos on your Mac or Windows computer, including Facebook lives. If you have got videos on
Download Facebook Videos
In this post I Will show you how to download Facebook videos
on your Mac or Windows computer, including Facebook lives. If you have got
videos on Facebook, including Facebook live streams, that you'd like to
download and re purpose from your Mac or Windows PC, unfortunately, the process
is not as straightforward as it can be. But the good news is that there are a
few options to do it and we are going to run through the best ones right now.
Now each option does have its advantages and disadvantages, so make sure you
stick around to make sure that you are using the best solution for you.
So the first option I'm going to take you through is just
using Facebook.com, using the website to download your videos that way. And the
process is a little bit different between a page, a profile and a group. So I'm
going to take you through the couple of different methods to download your
videos that way. But I do want to let you know that the next two options that
I'm going to take you through after this one will actually let you download
higher quality versions of your videos, then Facebook actually lets you
download using this method. So make sure you stick around for those.
Okay open your Facebook, go on your profile now. You need to
navigate through and find a video that we want to download. Let's say you have
a video to download. So what you do here is you click on the date itself that
the video was uploaded. That's going to open that post in a new window. Pause
that when that comes up. All you need to do for your profile is come up to
three dots in the top right-hand corner and hit download video. And once that
loads, you could be presented with one of two things. The first one, if you are
using Google Chrome and this is what's displayed. This is the video itself. All
you need to do to save it is to right click on it and choose save video as and
that video, you can then save it to my computer. Or depending on which browser
you are using. Actually just going to see the download window pop up to
automatically start that downloading. So that's the first way and that's how
you can download from your profile.
A page or a group can be a little bit different. You Will
find a video that someone have posted in the group. Let's click on this, you
Will pause it. And then I'm going to need to do is come down the bottom here.
Again we are looking for these three dots and we just choose download video. We
are then presented with that same window, just with the video itself in it.
Right click, save video as to save it or you might have already been prompted
to download at this point already. Okay, so that's option one for downloading
your own videos posted on your own profile, your page or a group where you have
made the post. The next two methods I'm going to show you, will let you download
higher quality versions of your own videos than following this method, and they
Will also let you easily download other people's videos as long as they are
public. So not posted inside of a private group.
So the option number two, is where we are going to be using
third party websites to manage the download for us. So I'm going to take you
through that now. So you want to come across and find videos in either a page,
a profile or a group that you want to download. Again make
sure that it's not a private video. So you are just going to go here to see all
videos. Let's pick one of them you will click on that. you Will pause it but
all you need to do is to grab link at the top, the video URL. Now for some
reason, if you are not seeing the video URL, you can right click on the video
itself and choose show video URL and you can see the two of them match, they
are exactly the same. So you have selected, right click, choose copy or press
command C or control C on your computer to copy that. You then want to come
across to one of these two websites. The first one is fbdownload.io and the
second one is fbdown.net. Now really, you can get great results with either one
of these two. My personal preference currently is fbdownload.io. But all you
need to do is just to paste that video link into the box, press download.
That's going to go and generate your download links for you. Scroll down the
bottom here and then pick the highest quality version of your video for you to
download. You just hit the download button and either, again, one of two things
is going to happen. It's either going to pop up in this new window like, where
we can right click and choose save video as or it's just going to pop straight
up with that download window for you to save your video to your computer. So
that is option number two is using third party websites. Again, like
fbdownload.io or fbdown.net.
Option number three which is my personal favorite is
actually what I use all the time is a piece of software for Mac and PC called
Parallels Toolbox. And Parallels Toolbox is so much more than just downloading
Facebook videos or YouTube videos, it is a suite of tools that you can install
on your computer to do some pretty cool stuff. So how do we actually use it for
downloading our videos? All we need to do is to come up to Parallels Toolbox,
click on download video and we get little window here that pops up, you Will
move it off to the side here. What you want to do is make sure that your
setting is all correct. So just press on settings, you get to choose your
preferred quality. What I would suggest is that you are pressing the maximum
quality available. You also have the ability to convert any non-MP4 files. So
if you are going to be downloading any videos off the internet or off any
websites that aren't in MP4, then you can have this automatically convert to
MP4 for you. And you also get to select your download location here. But to
download that video, all we need to do is to paste in that Facebook URL that we
copied, the direct URL or the direct link to our video. Come back to your video
down-loader and we Will just hit paste and the video itself just starts
downloading.
I think this tool giving you the ability to download the
best quality Facebook and YouTube videos. I think it is an amazing offering. So
that's how easy it is to download your Facebook videos.
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