Have you ever tried to download a Facebook video from your Facebook closed group page and then find out that there’s no option to save it? Unlike Facebook photos that you can easily save, it can be frustrating to discover that there’s no option to save Facebook videos. Welcome to the club!
Most of us are members of Facebook closed groups being used for family members, clubs, communities or a group of friends. There are instances that you would want to download an offline copy of the Facebook video posted in your closed group page so you can watch it over and over or just so you have a copy in your personal storage.
Recently, we had a family event and we have a lot of funny videos posted in our closed group page that I wanted to save. Let me share with you how you can do this.
Please note that you are NOT allowed to download any video that is copyrighted or with digital rights management. Check your local laws that may apply. This guide is only applicable for personal videos.
All you need is a computer and a Google Chrome browser to download the Facebook Video
You would need only the 3 things below which most likely you already have.
- Computer
- Google Chrome Browser
- Internet Connection
No special software needed!
10 Simple Steps to download the Facebook video from your Facebook Closed Group Page
1 Open your Google Chrome browser, login to Facebook and navigate to your closed group page to locate the video you want to download.
2 Click on the video on your Facebook page to open it
3 Right click on the video and click on “Show video URL”
4 Copy the video URL
5 Paste the URL in your browser’s address bar and change the “www” to “m”
6 When the page loads, right click and on the menu, click on “Inspect”
7 A window pane on the right side will appear, click on “Network”
8 Click on “Media” submenu and play the video, a filename appears on the right pane
9 Double click on the filename to open a window with the embedded video.
10 Click on download arrow and wait for the download to complete
Hope this helps you finally get an offline copy of Facebook videos from your memorable events!
It worked. Thanks!
If this is a bug, I hope facebook doesn’t plug it. But I know next time about the facebook rules for closed events. I had no idea as I was the creator of the group and performer in the video. It would be a true travesty if I couldn’t have accessed. Hope they intend for this to be a feature or else they don’t stop it without making an easier user option to download the videos. We need access to our own stuff. But I’m kind of glad it was like this actually because I got to learn more about internet stuff, something I mean to learn more about and this was a nice opportunity to get a little behind the architecture.
Hi, Thank you for this review. I also always wonder how to download videos from Facebook using my mobile phone. I found some web-based application that works well with my computer and I find it really helpful. You can also check wonderfox hd pro. This is a desktop tool but can convert downloaded videos to mobile phones. Like it, just try it.
This worked for me – thanks!!!
Awesome ! Thank you so much .
It didn’t work for me at first because the group was private. It was my own group, so I just changed the settings to a closed group and it worked just fine.
It doesn’t work for me 🙁 No file name shows up when the video starts playing 🙁
Awesome, Thank you so much.
Excellent visual tutorial! Thanks so much!
i cannot tell you how much i appreciate this… thank you. thank you. thank you. so very helpful. may your kindness return to you a thousand fold.
Glad I was able to help! 🙂
God bless you and thank you so much!!!!
This worked beautifully! Thank you!!!
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Thanks,
Hey TechGeek,
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Thanks,
Thanks Pinku though I avoid online sites where you would process personal videos so I came up with this different way albeit longer way of downloading the personal videos. Thanks!
It works. But how to select the video quality before downloading?
Hi Helmy, glad it worked for you too. Unfortunately, I haven’t found a way yet to download a higher video quality. If there’s anyone out there who has discovered how, hopefully they can share it using this comments section.
FINALLY!!!! I’ve been searching for something that would work, and your tutorial does. Thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing this!!!! This is fantastic! 🙂 <3
thank you for the tutorial however it hasnt been able to work for me. Do I need to be an admin of the fb group I am working to extract from?
Hi Michelle, is it a closed facebook group page or a secret facebook page? I think this will not work for secret group pages. If it’s from a closed facebook group page, let me know which particular step doesn’t work so I can try to help figure it out.
I opened that video in that group. After copying the url, I pasted it as it is on website Savefrom.net and downloaded it after selecting it’s format.
Hi Rumhan, yes there are sites out there that can be used to download videos from facebook but for those like me who are not comfortable in sending a private video in public servers, this method is what I prefer. 🙂
seems like the download is not as high of a resolution as the stream, is there any way to get the original 720p video?
Hi Jus tin, try to wait for the entire video to load before you download. I haven’t tried this so I’m not sure if that would work or if this is a limitation. Please let us know what you find out.
thank youuuuuu! it works! 😀
omg thank youuuuuu!
Thank you! I have just downloaded few student works for filing.
Finally a tutorial that works. Thanks for sharing, it really helped.
Glad you found it helpful!