How to download Facebook videos

Facebook is a good place to post videos for sharing with your friends or family. However, Facebook does not provide any way to download videos. But some might still want to download Facebook videos on the other hand for various reasons, as a friend of mine just asked me for some help to download videos from Facebook.

I’ve shared a number of times how you can download video from YouTube, download video from MegaVideo or any other video sharing sites. And now here’s how you’ll get Facebook video.

To download videos from Facebook and save Facebook videos to your local hard drive, there are basically three ways: 1. Use a web service to download Facebook videos; 2. Use web browser add-ons to download Facebook videos; 3. Use software programs to download Facebook videos.

In my opinion, the easiest and efficient way to download Facebook videos it use software programs – Streaming Video Recorder allows you to download any video from Facebook and save it as .mp4. Millions of people choose this web video downloader to download videos from the internet and save stream videos to PC. Apart from Facebook, it also supports other web video downloading, like YouTube, Yahoo video, DailyMotion, Metacafe, MegaVideo, etc.

Here’s how to download Facebook videos:The following will demonstrate how to rip Facebook videos with Streaming Video Recorder and save Facebook videos to either an iPod or iPhone.

Step1: Download and install Streaming Video Recorder to your computer if you don't already have one.  

Step2: Run this Facebook video downloader after installing. Click “Settings”, you can set up some options for video download and convert.

Step3: Visit www.facebook.com and play the Facebook video you want to download, the Facebook video downloader will detect the video automatically and start the downloading once video was detected.

Step4: From the Source list, you can preview the downloaded videos by click “Play” button or double-click the downloaded video. You could also convert videos to any formats by click the”Add to Convert” button.

Here I’d like also to introduce some online services to save Facebook videos:

1. Keepvid: A straightforward service. The user needs to paste the url of the video in the form provided on the website.

2. Video Downloader: Another basic web interface that allows users to download and convert videos from sites like Youtube, Dailymotion or MySpace.