Private Facebook Video Downloader

It means a video that Facebook restricts to a limited audience rather than the public — for example your own friends-only upload, a clip inside a private group you belong to, or a post shared with selected people. On this page, a private video is one you are already allowed to view while logged in, not a hidden video you have no access to.

Yes. The only videos FB DownS can help you save are ones you can already watch on your own logged-in Facebook account. Being authorised — as the uploader, a group member, or an approved viewer — is what makes saving possible and keeps it honest.

No. This is the most important point: FB DownS cannot access videos outside your permission. It does not bypass privacy settings, break into accounts, or reveal hidden posts. If Facebook won't let you watch a video, no legitimate tool — including ours — can save it.

Log into your account, open your own upload, tap the Share or three-dot menu and choose "Copy link". Paste that link into the box at the top of this page and pick a quality. Since it's your own video, you're fully entitled to keep an offline copy.

You can save a group video only if you're a member of that group and allowed to view the clip. Open it while logged in, copy the link, and paste it into FB DownS. If you're not in the group, the video isn't accessible and can't be saved.

Saving your own content, or a video you have clear permission to keep, for personal offline use is generally fine. The ethical rule is simple: get consent and respect people's privacy. Never save, re-share, or publish someone else's private video without their agreement — a private post was shared with a limited audience for a reason.

Open the video in the Facebook app while logged in, copy its link, then open fbdowns.com in Safari and paste it. Choose a quality and the file saves to your Files app, from where you can move it to Photos. For tightly restricted clips you're allowed to keep, the iPhone screen recorder is an honest fallback.

Copy the link from the Facebook app while signed in, open fbdowns.com in Chrome, and paste it. Pick SD or HD and the MP4 saves to your Downloads folder or Gallery. If a link can't reach a restricted video you're authorised to keep, Android's built-in screen recorder works too.

Yes. Log into Facebook in your browser, open a video you're allowed to view, copy its link and paste it into FB DownS. The MP4 downloads to your browser's Downloads folder in Chrome, Safari, Edge or Firefox — no software to install.

Yes. Saving your authorised private videos is completely free. There's no sign-up, no subscription and no daily limit, so you can back up as many of your own clips as you need.

No. FB DownS runs entirely in your web browser. There's nothing to download or install — you just paste a link to a video you can already watch.

On Android, files usually appear in your Gallery or the Downloads folder in the Files app. On iPhone, they save to the Files app and can be moved to Photos. On a computer, check your browser's Downloads folder.

Most often the video is restricted to an audience you're not part of, so it genuinely can't be fetched — that's expected behaviour, not a bug. Also make sure you used "Copy link" on the video itself while logged in. For restricted clips you're authorised to keep, use the in-browser save method or your device's screen recorder instead.

No. Links are handled on demand and nothing is kept — no video files, no download history and no personal data on our servers. Your activity stays private to you.

Our main Facebook video downloader is for public videos anyone can view without logging in. This page is for private videos you're personally authorised to see, which need you to be logged in and part of the audience. Neither tool bypasses Facebook privacy — they only work with content you can already access.

Yes, provided the video is one you are already allowed to watch. Log into Facebook, open the clip, copy its link from the Share or three-dot menu, paste it into the box at the top of this page and choose a quality. The download runs directly from Facebook to your browser. Videos outside your permitted audience cannot be reached by this or any legitimate tool.

You need to be a member of the group and able to play the video already. Open the post while logged in, copy its link, and paste it here to save an MP4. Check the group's own rules first — many private groups expect members not to take recordings outside the group, and being technically able to save something does not mean you should share it.

You cannot, and neither can any honest tool. Facebook checks group membership on its own servers, so a video from a group you have not joined never streams for you and there is no file for a downloader to fetch. If you need the clip, ask a member or the poster to share it with you directly.

An authorised tool works from access you already have rather than creating new access. FB DownS asks only for a link to a video your logged-in account can already play, never for your Facebook password, and never installs anything. Any service claiming it can unlock private videos, or asking for your credentials, is not authorised — it is a risk to your account.

No. Messenger attachments have no shareable post URL, so a link-based online downloader has nothing to work with. If the sender is happy for you to keep the clip, ask them for the original file, use Messenger's own save option where it appears, or screen-record with their agreement. Do not try to extract a private conversation's contents another way.

No — and we would not help with that even if it were technically possible. FB DownS only reaches videos you are authorised to view, and the right thing to do with someone else's private clip is to ask them first. A video shared with a narrow audience was shared that way deliberately, and saving or re-sharing it without consent is a privacy breach, not a feature.

The rules are identical for businesses and agencies: a downloader can only reach what the viewing account is entitled to see. Brands can archive their own uploads freely, but client, partner or creator content needs written permission first. FB DownS has no commercial tier, no bulk pipeline and no API — every download is a single video saved by one authorised person in a browser.

No. FB DownS handles one video at a time in your browser, with no batch mode, no queue, no scheduling, no cloud storage and no app or extension. That is deliberate for a page dealing with private content: each save is a conscious, individual action on a video you are authorised to keep.

You get the qualities Facebook actually publishes for that video, usually an SD option and an HD one. HD here means the best merged video-and-audio file Facebook serves, which in practice is normally 720p rather than true 1080p or 4K. Nothing is re-encoded, so the audio stays in sync and the picture matches the original.