What do you know about Facebook? It is an online platform that allows users to share images, videos, news, post, etc with friends and people they don’t know online. It allows users who sign up for free profiles to connect with friends, work colleagues, or people they don’t know online. Likewise, Facebook is the most-used social media network of all time with millions of users.
However, what does Facebook fail to offer? As a Facebook user, you know that it never allows you to download videos from its platform directly to your devices. Only they let us save videos for later watching. Before we get to permanently videos from Facebook, you can save videos within Facebook to watch them later. Likewise, you can find all the saved videos in one place from your Facebook app after saving. However, it does not save videos to your local storage. Hence, if the owner deletes the video, you can’t get access to it anymore.
If there is no official way to download Facebook videos from its platform, how can you download your favorite videos? For that, you can use another unofficial method. What are those methods?
- Use of mbasic.facebook.com
- Use of m.facebook.com
- Use of third-party Facebook downloaders
You can use them without any effort. Why? These methods are easy to use. Hence, you can download unlimited Facebook videos easily and quickly. Now let’s see more details about the above three Facebook downloading methods.
How to save videos from Facebook to your Mac devices?
As usual, you can save videos on Facebook by using the icon on the Facebook app for offline viewing.
- Firstly, find the Facebook video you want to save for watching later.
- Tap the three horizontal dots, in the top right corner of the video.
- Then click the icon “ save video”
You can find all the saved videos in one place on the Facebook app. But it doesn’t save any video to your local storage. Hence, if you watch it later, you must watch it before the deletion by the owner.
How to find saved videos? Click “watch” – the icon that looks like a computer monitor with a play button in the middle – in the top menu. Then, choose the saved videos.
Now let’s see how to download Facebook videos by using the above-mentioned three methods.
How to download videos from Facebook using mbasic.facebook.com?
To download your favorite Facebook video on your Mac, right-click on it and select show video URL. Now paste the link of the FB video into a new tab. Then, apply the “mbasic” word to the “www” part in the link. Finally, right-click it. Then, select video saves as. Here is the complete step guide for that.
- Log into Facebook using any web browser on your Mac.
- Open the video you like to download. ( need to start playing the FB video)
- Then, right-click on the video. This will cause to open the menu to appear with Play, Mute, and Show Video URLs.
- After, tap the Show Video URL icon.
- Copy the URL of the Facebook video.
- Next, open another tab on your browser and paste the URL into the address bar. (Do not click the Enter button on your keyboard at this point)
- Now you can apply “mbasic” part to the “www” part in the URL of the video.
- Then, click the Enter icon.
- Tap the Facebook video you wish to download from its platform.
- Right-click the video and select save the video.
- Provide the name and destination of your video
- Then click the save icon to save the video.
How to download videos from Facebook using m.facebook.com?
- First, open your Facebook account and select the video you want to get.
- Replace the “www” part of the URL with “m”.
- You need to right-click on the video and select the option save video as.
How to download videos from Facebook using a Facebook downloader?
There is no official way to download Facebook videos from its platform. Hence, you can use third-party software to download your favorite videos from Facebook. They are known as Facebook downloaders.
There are various types of Facebook downloaders available in the online market. They are FDownloader, FDOWN, Snapsave, Getfvid, Savefrom, etc. They help to download unlimited Facebook videos online. Likewise, they are available for free. Hence, you can download any Facebook videos without making any payment.
Do you like to try a Facebook downloader to download videos to your Mac devices? If yes, I highly recommend using FDownloader for that. Why? It is the safest and most reliable FB video downloader online. Likewise, it frequently updates to provide a quality service to its users. Also, it supports iOS, iPhone, Android, iPad, and any desktop, including Windows, Linux, Mac, and tablets. The software smoothly operates through any web browser. What are those web browsers?
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari
- Dolphin
- Opera
- UC
- CM, etc.
The Facebook downloader conforms to the highest stability and security. It will secure your privacy. Likewise, the download speed is the fastest. It helps to download HD-quality videos from Facebook. If so, now let’s see the step guide to downloading videos to Mac using it.
How to download FB videos online using a Facebook downloader?
- First, visit Facebook from your Mac computer to download Facebook videos.
- Select the Facebook video you like to download
- Expand the options from the right top corner, and copy the link to the video.
- Now, go to the Facebook downloader video online from the browser and paste the copied URL into the input box.
- Click on the “Download” icon.
- Now you can see options such as “Download SD video” and “ Other formats” and the download option again.
- Within a few seconds, your Facebook video will download automatically.
- Continue the download by clicking the correct option
Conclusion
Even if Facebook is the most popular social media network of all time, it fails to offer content downloads from Facebook. Hence, we have to use unofficial methods to download content from Facebook. I have provided three methods using this article. All these methods are simple and not complicated. Hence, you can use them efficiently. Read also!
