Simply the Best Tips & Tricks for Everyday Life
Facebook is a good platform to post some of the best videos especially when they relate to your friends or family. I also find that Facebook video supports higher resolution upload than YouTube. Whilst grabbing YouTube video is a breeze, leeching Facebook video is a little harder. Finally here’s how you’ll do it…
Go to your Facebook video page or your friends’
1. Note the link of your page and note especially the ‘video.php?v=37511833824′ part of the URL. Take down the ID number ’37511833824′.
2. Now replace your ID with this link: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=ID and it’ll become http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=37511833824. Open this in your browser.
3. Next click View | Page Source in Firefox or View | Source in Internet Explorer. Search the source for ‘.flv’. This is where the flash video is based.
4. Copy this into Notepad or something similar. This URL is not in a final form yet. What we need to do is to replace the %2f with ‘/’.
5. That’s it. You can now paste this new link into the browser and download the video directly from Facebook.
You will note that the
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22 Responses for "Hacking Facebook Video – How to Download your favorite Facebook Video?"
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!
This is exactly what my facebook script does. It only broke because of changes made by facebook when they added the chat feature.
Thx Mike, sometimes it’s one thing to write a script and run it, others may find it interesting to know exactly how it’s done behind the scene. It takes more work but you get to know the secret sauce. And in case when scripts stop working when they upgrade, which happens all the time isn’t it?
Looks awesome! But am I the only one having problem with the web sniffer? As i enter the “ingredient”.. I dont get a download request, insted
shows up.. And pisses me off!
Plz help =)
For me, it downloads the video, but it makes it all weird and doubled… and colored differently… and it has no sound… I don’t know if I’m doing anything wrong… plz help…
Genius
How do people come up with this stuff???
Amazing! Thank you so much for sharing!!!
Thankss man you are the best!!
I cannot figure it out. I do everything how it says and when I try to put the new web address in the bar it says cannot be found…
( please help..
Thanks! Works like a dream
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ok it changed from .flv to .mp4 what do i do now
Play it in VLC.
it doesn`t work anymore. i guess the facebook staff found out about it
Shucks! “Source” doesn’t open at ALL when I click on it (I use IE).. I think they (Facebook) has rooted out the problem.. “properties” doesn’t shed any light on anything, either
PS: Meant to add this.. I have always been able to download the video, and have a little tool to convert it to another format (e.g., flv to .wmv or .avi) but there is NEVER any sound associated with any of them, even the original .flv .. I’ve hunted codecs ’til I’m blue in the face.
THX!!!
im absolutely confused , it made me cry
YOU ROCK
i think u need to find video_src if it is not a flv file
thank you very much…………finally i can download funny video hahaha thank you such as this http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=298501405503
Good tips and I managed to download the mp4 without installing any software or scripts whatsoever.
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