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FDownloader

Facebook Video Downloader

Paste a public video link to save Facebook videos and reels as HD MP4, with the audio intact.

Why this one

A Facebook downloader built to get out of your way

A Facebook video downloader without watermarks, ads, or an account step. One field, one button, and a file on your device.

HD and SD, never re-encoded

Facebook publishes a video as two progressive MP4 files — an HD pass and an SD one. Both are listed, HD first, and whichever you pick is streamed straight through: nothing re-encoded, resized, or watermarked on the way past us. The file you save is the one Facebook serves its own player, which is the whole of what an HD Facebook video downloader can honestly offer: the HD pass that was uploaded, never an upscale of the SD one.

Reels, Watch, and feed videos

One field for every surface: the same fb video downloader takes reels, Watch links, Page uploads, videos inside a post permalink, and fb.watch share links, along with photos from public posts.

Audio always included

Facebook also publishes a streaming ladder whose video and audio are separate tracks. We ignore it on purpose — those files save silent. Only the muxed MP4 is offered. That ladder, not the downloader, is why an fb video download arrives mute elsewhere.

Nothing is stored

Every Facebook video download is streamed from Meta's CDN to your browser and never written to disk here. Only a short-lived metadata cache exists.

No account, no tracking pixels

No login, no browser extension, no third-party analytics, and no advertising trackers — an online Facebook downloader needs none of them. Your clipboard stays your business.

Three steps

How to download a Facebook video

A whole Facebook video download takes about ten seconds, on desktop or phone. Reels and Watch links are the same three steps.

  1. Step 1: Copy the video link

    In the Facebook app, tap Share under the video and choose Copy link. On the web, open the video on its own page and copy the URL from the address bar — a fb.watch short link works just as well.

  2. Step 2: Paste it above

    Drop the link into the field and press Download. We read the post's public metadata and list every file it holds, with the quality of each — everything you need to download a Facebook video is on screen before you commit to one.

  3. Step 3: Save the file

    HD sits at the top, so the first row needs no thought. Pick one and it saves straight to your device as an MP4 with a descriptive filename. That is the whole fb to mp4 step, and there is no conversion inside it. Nothing is queued or emailed.

Files stored on our servers
0
Every Facebook download streams straight through
Original quality preserved
HD
The same MP4 Facebook serves its own player
Sign-up required
No
Nothing to install, nothing to register
Overview

What this Facebook downloader does

FDownloader turns a public Facebook video link into an MP4 you can keep, for publicly posted media only. Here is precisely what that covers, and where it stops.

What it does

Facebook video download without watermarks

Paste a public video link and every file Facebook publishes for it is listed, HD first. The one you pick is streamed through byte for byte — no watermark is stamped on, no frame is re-compressed, and no branding is burned into a corner. A Facebook video downloader without watermarks is less a feature here than an absence: there is no branding step in the pipeline to switch off. Nothing is upscaled either, so a clip uploaded at 480p stays 480p whatever other tools claim. Nothing is converted, either — an fb to mp4 job here is a copy, because the MP4 is the file Facebook already made.

How video quality works

Every download keeps its audio

This is where most Facebook downloaders go wrong. Alongside the ordinary MP4 files, Facebook publishes a streaming ladder whose picture and sound are separate tracks — tempting, because its entries are labelled with exact resolutions, and broken, because saving one gives you a silent video. Only the muxed progressive files are offered here. That is why the quality list is short: every row on it is a complete video, and a Facebook MP4 video download from this page arrives with its sound.

Why the file list is short

Reels, Watch links, and fb.watch

One field covers every surface Facebook mints a link for: reels, Watch pages, Page uploads, videos inside a post permalink, story and permalink forms, and the fb.watch and /share/ short links the app hands you. Photos from public posts resolve too, as JPEG. Nothing has to be pasted in a particular shape — m., web., and mbasic. addresses are all the same page underneath. The abbreviation is Facebook's own, which is what fb.watch is short for, so an fb downloader and a Facebook one are not two different products: an fb video downloader without watermark is this page under the name most people type.

Open the Reels downloader

An online Facebook downloader, on any device

One responsive page in the browser, with no app and no extension to install, so you can save a Facebook video on a phone without adding anything to it. Tap Share under the video, choose Copy link, paste it here, and save. On iOS the file lands in Files and can be moved into Photos; on Android it goes to Downloads and the gallery usually picks it up on its own. Desktop saves wherever your browser normally does.

Read the step-by-step guide

What it never does

Nothing is stored, nothing is tracked

The download proxy has no storage layer — bytes arrive from Meta's CDN and leave for your browser in the same breath, so there is no archive of any Facebook download to leak. No accounts, no cookies, no analytics scripts, and no Facebook pixel on a site about Facebook. Resolved video metadata is cached for about ten minutes so a repeat lookup does not hit Facebook twice, and then it is gone.

Read the privacy policy

Sign in on your behalf

This downloader fetches Facebook with no session at all, which is why pasting a link here reaches public videos and nothing else — friends-only posts, private groups and Stories are not publicly served. For a video you can already watch there is a separate page where your own browser does the fetching and you paste the page source, so even then nobody hands us a password. Lookups are capped at twenty a minute per address to keep the service available for everyone.

Downloading a private video

A download is not a licence

The person or Page that uploaded a video owns it, and saving a copy does not transfer that. Keeping your own uploads, and keeping personal offline copies of things you are allowed to keep, is what this is for. Re-uploading someone else's work as your own is a copyright problem however the file was obtained.

Copyright policy

Still deciding whether this fits what you need? The FAQ answers 25 questions on Facebook download quality, formats, and limits, including every error the downloader can show, and the about page covers the limits in more detail.

FAQ

Facebook download questions people actually ask

The 9 that come up most often. The full directory also covers file sizes, privacy, every error message, and copyright.

Do I need an account, an app, or an extension?

None of the three. This is a Facebook video downloader online and nothing more — one page in your browser: paste a link, pick a file, done. There is nothing to register for, nothing to install, and no paid tier hiding the good options.

You are never asked to log in to Facebook, and you should not be. A downloader that asks for your Facebook password is asking for your account, not for a video. That test holds whatever the tool calls itself: an fb video downloader has no more business with your password than this one does.

Does it work as a Facebook Reels downloader?

Yes, through the same field. A /reel/ link resolves exactly like a Watch link, and reels come back as MP4 with sound, at the quality Facebook published.

Reels are usually published as a single progressive file, so one download row is normal for them rather than a sign that something is missing. Longer uploads more often carry both an HD and an SD pass.

Is video re-encoded, downscaled, or watermarked?

Not by us. We read the file list from the video's own public metadata and stream the one you pick straight through, byte for byte. No watermark is added, no frame is re-compressed, and no branding is burned in.

Facebook publishes most videos twice: an HD pass and an SD pass. Both are listed, HD first. Picking the top row gives you the same MP4 Facebook hands its own player at that quality — a Facebook video download in HD with nothing altered in between.

Nothing is upscaled either. If the uploader posted a 480p clip, 480p is the ceiling, whatever another site claims about 4K.

There are two options. HD or SD?

HD, unless you have a reason not to. It is the top row, and it is the same file Facebook plays when you switch its own player to HD.

SD is there for a metered connection or when you are sending the clip on in a chat — a smaller file at a lower resolution. Both come from Facebook; neither is produced here.

One caveat worth being straight about: the HD pass is Facebook's own copy, not the untouched file the uploader picked from their camera roll. That copy is the ceiling for any HD Facebook video downloader — no tool can reach the original, and any that claims to is guessing.

Will the download have sound?

Yes, always. This is worth explaining because it is the most common way a Facebook downloader goes wrong.

Alongside the progressive MP4 files, Facebook publishes a streaming ladder — the one its player uses to switch quality mid-playback. Those entries look attractive because they are labelled with exact resolutions, sometimes higher than the progressive HD pass. But in that ladder the picture and the sound are separate tracks, so downloading one gives you a silent video.

We ignore that ladder entirely and only offer the muxed progressive files. That is why the quality list here is short: every row on it is a complete video with its audio intact.

Do you store what I download?

No. Every Facebook video download is piped from Meta's CDN through to your browser as it arrives. Nothing is buffered to disk, nothing is written to a database, and there is no archive of past downloads to leak or subpoena.

That is a structural property, not a promise about our intentions: the proxy has no storage layer to write to.

Can I download someone else's video and repost it?

Not without their permission. The person or Page that uploaded it owns it, and a download button does not transfer that.

What this tool is for: saving your own uploads, and keeping a personal offline copy of things you are allowed to keep. Re-uploading someone else's video as your own is a copyright problem regardless of how you obtained the file — and on Facebook it is also the fastest way to get a Page struck.

Got a link ready?

Paste it in and your Facebook video download starts before you finish reading this sentence.

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