Download Facebook Videos — Watch, Reels & fb.watch

fb.watch links are shortened redirects to Facebook videos — similar to how bit.ly shortens URLs. When you paste an fb.watch link into VidForYou, it automatically follows the redirect and fetches the underlying video. Both formats work identically.

Don't copy the URL while the video is playing inline in your News Feed — that's a feed URL, not a video URL. Instead, click the video's date/timestamp to open it on its own page. The URL in your browser will contain '/videos/', '/watch/', or '/reel/'. Copy that URL.

Yes. When the video info card loads, VidForYou shows the available resolutions (typically 720p and 1080p, sometimes 480p). Click the quality you want, then click Download.

Yes. Facebook Watch videos (at facebook.com/watch) work with the same process as other Facebook videos. Open the Watch video so it has its own URL, copy it, and paste it above.

Yes. Facebook Reels have their own URLs (containing '/reel/'). Paste the Reel URL exactly like any other Facebook video URL — the download process is identical.

Facebook's player adapts quality to your connection speed and may show a higher-bitrate stream than what's stored as a downloadable file. Additionally, Facebook compresses all uploads at ingest — so the quality ceiling of any download is Facebook's processed copy, not the original upload. For most videos, the downloaded file is 720p or 1080p.

Yes, once the broadcast has ended and Facebook has finished processing it as a public video. Live-in-progress streams cannot be downloaded — the URL exists but the file isn't yet a single downloadable asset.

Yes. Open facebook.com in your phone browser (Safari or Chrome), navigate to the video, copy the URL from the address bar, then paste it into VidForYou. The Facebook app is not required at any step.

Only for public Groups. Videos in private or closed Groups require a Facebook login to view — VidForYou cannot authenticate, so those videos are inaccessible.

Yes. Navigate to the Page's Videos tab, click the video to open it on its own page, copy the URL, and paste it above. Public Page videos download the same way as personal profile videos.

Facebook's video player uses a JavaScript overlay that intercepts the right-click event and shows Facebook's own context menu (Share, Embed, Report) instead of your browser's Save dialog. Even in browsers where a native context menu appears, the offered URL is a streaming manifest (.mpd or .m3u8), not a downloadable .mp4 file. VidForYou accesses the video's source URL directly, bypassing the player entirely.

No. VidForYou can download any publicly accessible Facebook video without authentication. Videos set to Friends, Friends of Friends, or private cannot be downloaded — they're not publicly accessible.