Never mind that it’s a link to someone’s post OF that video, but if you keep bookmarks, you’ll still want to keep the URL of the video itself, rather than a post.Being the largest social network, Facebook is not only best to stay connected with friends, family, colleagues and maintain a good social life but it is the largest video-sharing website too. This is the URL that will work with iTube Studio. Right-click on the “shares” link and open in a new window or tab (or copy the link address to the clipboard). Hover over this link and you’ll see a list of people who shared this video URL.Ģ. This may be under the video where you first saw it posted or to the right of the video when playing in its superimposed multi-video page. Find where Facebook displays the number of “shares” near the video. This finds a page that has only the one video, the URL for which may be used for downloading via iTube Studio.ġ. I have come up with an odd workaround, at least for iTube Studio, that might be a solution for other downloading applications or uses. Even though the URL does link directly to the desired specific file, playing always occurs in context with other videos, causing possible failure. This may be seen when clicking on a video or pasting the URL of the video. Some time recently, Facebook made a change that causes videos to play in a superimposed player page that includes other videos. Desired video downloading may fail if there are other videos visible on the page (such as in a Facebook timeline). To download the video, iTube Studio needs a URL that isolates the video on a page by itself.

iTube Studio wants to download whichever video it finds first within the code of that floating area, rather than the currently playing video.

It gets confused by this URL, since FB presents the video in a ‘floating’ format that contains previews of other videos. However, I am using an application, iTube Studio, to download FB videos.

OK, let me clarify what my problem was and the workaround I found.įirst, yes, you can get the URL of a FB video and that URL will always get you to that video to play.

Download facebook video url