You found a Facebook video worth keeping, and Facebook, predictably, gives you no download button. Paste the link here instead. Copy the video’s URL from the Facebook app or the address bar, drop it in the box above, and the MP4 saves to your device a few seconds later. No app to install, no Facebook login, and nothing added on top of the file.
This Facebook video downloader works on public videos, Reels, and Watch clips. That “public” part matters, and most downloader sites are cagey about it, so here is the honest version: if you have to be logged in to Facebook to see the video, no tool can reach it from a pasted link. More on that below.
How to download a Facebook video
- Copy the link. In the app, tap the three dots on the post and pick “Copy link”. On desktop, click the timestamp or the share arrow to open the video, then copy the URL from the address bar.
- Paste it above. Drop the link into the box and let it load. A
facebook.com/watch,fb.watch,facebook.com/reel, or a regular post URL all work. - Download. Pick the file and it saves as an MP4 you can play anywhere, edit, or re-share.
On a phone, the copied link often points at the Facebook app rather than the video itself. If the paste does not resolve, open the post in your mobile browser first (tap “Open in browser”), then copy the address bar URL. That one step fixes most “invalid link” complaints.
What you can and can’t download
Here is the part the ad-heavy downloader sites bury.
You can save any video that plays without a login: public page posts, public Reels, Watch videos, and most public group content.
You cannot save a video that Facebook gates behind a login or a private profile. That covers private group posts, friends-only videos, and anything from an account you would need to be logged in to view. No pasted-link downloader can reach those, and any site that says it can is either lying or about to ask for your Facebook password. Do not hand it over.
If it is your own private video, the clean route is to download it from inside Facebook (the three-dot menu on your own posts has a Download option), or grab it from wherever you first uploaded it.
The quality you actually get
Facebook is the reason “HD” is fuzzy here. It stores most uploads as both an SD and an HD rendition, and which one plays depends on the viewer’s connection and the uploader’s settings. The downloader pulls the highest rendition Facebook is serving for that video, so if the clip was only ever posted in SD, that is the ceiling. You cannot pull detail Facebook never stored. Reels are usually 1080p vertical; older page videos are often 720p or lower.
So if a saved clip looks softer than you expected, that is Facebook’s copy, not the download.
Reels, Watch, and plain videos all work
People paste four different Facebook URL shapes and expect them to behave differently. They do not:
- A Reel link (
facebook.com/reel/...) saves the vertical MP4 with audio. - An
fb.watch/...short link behaves the same as the full URL it redirects to. - A Watch video or a page post video saves in whatever resolution Facebook serves.
- A shared link with tracking junk after a
?still works; the extra parameters are ignored.
If you want the audio only (a song, an interview, a podcast clip), skip the video and use the extract audio from a video link tool instead. And if the goal is the words rather than the file, the Facebook video transcript tool turns the same link into text.
Who bothers downloading Facebook videos
Marketers save competitor Reels and page videos for swipe files before an account edits or deletes them. Community managers archive their own group’s video posts for records. People keep a relative’s video from a family group before it scrolls away for good. Editors pull public clips to reference or react to. The common thread is simple: Facebook is bad at letting you keep anything, and a plain MP4 on your drive does not vanish when an account does.
A note on the other Facebook tools here
This page is for saving a normal public video. Two neighbours cover different jobs. If you are after videos made by Meta’s AI generator, that is the Meta AI video downloader. And if you specifically want disappearing Stories rather than feed videos, the best Facebook story downloaders breakdown compares the tools built for that.
Pricing
The free plan needs no credit card and covers 2 transcriptions of recordings up to 45 minutes each. After that, Pro is $19/month billed annually. There is no recurring “unlimited free” tier, the accuracy page spells out exactly what the free account includes.
