Get the right link first
Facebook copies several different link shapes depending on where you tap. From the feed, the three-dot menu gives you a facebook.com/watch or /videos link. From the mobile share sheet you often get an fb.watch short link. From a Reel you get a /reel/ link. All of these work — what matters is that you copy the link to the post, not to the page or profile that published it.
On iPhone
Open the post in the Facebook app, tap the three dots, choose Copy link, then switch to Safari and paste it into the box on this page. Choose your quality and the file saves to Downloads. To move it into Photos, open the Files app, find it in Downloads, then share it to Photos. Safari will ask permission the first time it downloads a file — that is normal.
On Android
Copy the link the same way, paste it in Chrome, and the MP4 lands in your Downloads folder and appears in your gallery automatically. If Chrome asks whether to allow the download, allow it once.
On desktop
Copy the address from your browser bar while the video is playing, or right-click the post’s timestamp and copy the link. Paste it in and pick the highest resolution offered.
Why your download is sometimes SD
Facebook publishes most videos twice — an SD encode and an HD one — and hands the player whichever fits the connection. Downloaders that take "the video" often take SD because it is listed first. Check the resolution shown next to each option and choose the highest. If only one low resolution appears, that is genuinely all Facebook has for that upload.
What will not work
Videos in private groups, friends-only posts, and anything you cannot see while logged out. That is a deliberate limit, not a bug: no legitimate tool should reach private content, and none here asks for your Facebook login.
Downloading a Facebook Reel
Reels live at a /reel/ URL rather than /watch/, which is why some tools reject a link that looks perfectly ordinary. Copy the Reel link the same way — three dots, or the share icon — and paste it in. The file comes back as a vertical MP4 at native resolution. You can also take just the sound as an MP3, or the cover frame as a JPG, from the same link.
When a link will not work at all
Three causes cover almost every failure. The link points at a profile or a page rather than a specific post, so there is no single video to fetch. The post is not public, which no legitimate tool can get around. Or the video is a live broadcast that is still running — wait until it ends and is published as a normal video, then try again. If a link fails for none of these reasons, opening the post in a browser and copying the address from the bar usually produces a cleaner URL than the app share sheet does.
Saving your own page’s videos in bulk
If you manage a page and want everything you have posted, Facebook’s own data download is the better route: Settings → Your information → Download your information, choose Posts and set the media quality to High. It produces an archive of your uploads without you pasting a hundred links, and it gives you Facebook’s best stored copy. Use a downloader for the one-off cases that tool does not cover — a video from a page you do not administer but have permission to use, or a single post you need right now.
A note on quality expectations
Facebook re-encodes everything on upload, and it is not gentle. A 4K master uploaded to a page is stored at 1080p at best, and long videos are compressed harder than short ones. That means the file you retrieve is never the file that was uploaded — it is Facebook’s working copy. For your own material, keep your export; for anything else, the HD option is genuinely the best that exists and no tool can do better. If a download looks worse than the video did in the feed, check the resolution shown next to each option before assuming the tool is at fault, because taking the SD encode by accident explains most of these complaints.