Facebook just like food and water has officially become a huge part of our daily lives. Through Facebook, we interact and catch up with our friends, acquaintances and even families living far from us. Over the years Facebook has developed and modified its applications to fit our daily lives.
With plenty of things happening on Facebook, one can find exciting videos there that captures your attention, and you’d like to download such video for keeps. In this article, we will be talking about the Facebook private video downloader and how to use them to download private Facebook videos.
Downloading Private Facebook Videos is no longer a hard task as before because they are dozens of sites which can help you download private videos easily from Facebook.
Facebook private video downloader are numerous on the internet, that’s why we only list out the top 6, see them below:
It is important to note that a Facebook private video is very much different from Facebook public video downloader. Private videos are videos which were not made accessible to the public and as such cannot be downloaded using a direct downloader. Some people upload videos and set it to public for easy public access and download while some videos are set to private and not easily accessible.
You can simply access and download a public Facebook video through it’s webpage address (URL) whereas you cannot access and download private videos just by its webpage address (URL). Also note that Facebook stores their video in their private servers which is hosted in the cloud.
Downloading a private video from Facebook on any of the sites mentioned above is quite easy as they follow the same pattern of copying the video’s source code and pasting it on the search box provided on the site.
These Facebook private video downloader are capable of downloading videos in HD, 2K,4K, from a facebook page or group; into any device, be it Android or IOS, Windows or Mac.
How Facebook private video downloader works
- Open Facebook and while going through your newsfeed and you find a video you’d like to download but it’s set to private, right click on that video and the page will open in a new tab.
- Once it opens, again right click on the page and tap on ‘View page source’, on your PC it can be opened by pressing Ctrl + U on windows or Command + Options + U on Mac.
- The page source will be displayed in front of you, copy the entire content on the page source. You can press the key Ctrl + C to copy the source code.
- After that, right click on any of the Facebook private video downloading site mentioned above and open it to proceed with the site.
- Paste the source code you copied earlier on the search box provided by the site and click on download.
Tip: Usually an option will be displayed to download either High definition (HD) or Standard definition (SD) videos. HD videos offer high definition and high quality pictures with larger megabyte while SD videos offer lower definition and lower picture quality for a lesser megabyte.
Once you have chosen the quality you want and have downloaded the video successfully, check your download folder to see your downloaded video.
Now you have learnt how to download private Facebook videos, it is important you download ethically. A person must have had a genuine reason why they uploaded their videos and made it private. It could be a personal data, video containing a compromising footage, or information that they don’t want in the public. It’s is important you seek permission before distributing such video.
Artistes, professionals, musicians, etc. can sue you for distributing their videos without permission, and you could land into trouble with the law. So one needs to take precautions and act accordingly.
Following these steps might be complicated for you at first but once you get a hang of it, you can download lots of private Facebook videos easily and quickly.
