How to Download a Facebook Live Video
I get asked this question a lot: How do I download my Facebook Live video?
Great question, honestly!
There are a number of reasons you might want to download your Facebook Lives, including:
- So you can upload it to YouTube or Vimeo
- So you can upload it to your own website or blog (as opposed to simply embedding it)
- So you can repurpose it as a lead magnet
- So you can store it on your computer…just in case!
In the past, Facebook didn’t make it super easy to figure out how to download your Lives.
Fortunately, it’s now really easy – and I’ll walk you through this simple process in just two steps!
Step-by-step system on how to download your Facebook Live Video
Note: This only works for your OWN Facebook Live Videos. If you want to download a Live that’s been shared by someone else on your feed or in a group, skip to the next section of this post where I share the tool that will do that for you!
1. Step One – Find the video in your profile, feed or on your page
Probably the simplest way is to navigate to your page, and click on Videos in the left sidebar (if you shared it on your page).
Find the video you’d like to download and click on it to open it.
If you’re accessing the video via your feed, you’ll need to do things a little differently – you’ll want to click on the time stamp. This will make the video pop up, and you’ll also see all the comments on the right side of your screen.
Step 2: Click on the three little dots in the upper right-hand corner
You’ll now see the option to Download Video.
Click on this option and your video will automatically be saved to your phone or computer as an MP4.
That’s IT!
How to Download Someone Else’s Facebook Live
Unfortunately, following the steps above won’t work for someone else’s video. Clicking on the three dots will give you the option to Save Video (in your Saved file on Facebook only) or Embed Video (on your website or blog).
You may have heard of another strategy involving switching to the mobile version of Facebook – in fact, if you google “How to download a Facebook Live”, you’ll still see a few sites still giving these instructions!
Unfortunately, this strategy no longer works with most browsers. That’s the bad news!
The good news is that you can easily download someone else’s Facebook Live using a free tool.
Here’s how!
How to Save a Facebook Live Using SaveFrom.net
As above, find the video you’d like to download and click on the time stamp to open it up and start playing it.
Now copy the URL from your browser’s address bar, then go to SaveFrom.net and paste the URL.
You’ll now have the option to download the MP4 in standard definition or high definition.
And that’s it! Doesn’t get much easier than that J
Need more help with your Facebook Lives? These posts will help!
How to Grow Your List Using Facebook Live
Top 22 Ways to Use Facebook Live to Market Your Business
How to Look Like a Pro Using Facebook Live: Lights, Camera, Action
I’d love to know: How do you plan to repurpose your Facebook Lives? Let me know below!
Thanks , great stuff. But also – Facebook Live has recently released new APIs which enables a producer stream from other sources – not just mobile devices – but also hardware and software live encoders. This is a big deal because now, professionally produced multi-camera events can be broadcast live through the Facebook live streaming platform.
Yes they have Nicoli :-).
Yes, Total Video Downloader can perfectly grab FaceBook live videos to me.
Kim,
I have some amazing ideas that could really utilize the Facebook API – I have some of my development team on it now. We should talk, because we could do a LOT of great things for people 😉
Hi Kim,
Indeed you have shared with us an amazing and step by step tutorial which make it easy for every one who don’t have any idea how to download Facebook videos. Keep up the good work.
Many thanks for informative share 🙂
Regards
Mairaj
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Hey, Kim!
Excellent share of the awesome tip!
I have been getting involved with the live videos recently and always figured that how come I could download them to watch later.
So, now I know that I got the working method to download the live videos into my machine.
Thanks for sharing it with us! 🙂
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OH MY GOSH, thank you!!!!! This is an awesome, awesome tip.
Very nice. I also don’t know about this method. Very nice step by step tutorial.
Now i can download my friends videos that are uploaded on FB.
Thanks, I enjoyed the step by step. Now it’s more practical to me
Hmmmm. How about if you want to save a live stream video of your friend to youe mobile? Thank you!
You can save any FB Live video using the instructions.
I am in desktop mode, following these instructions exactly and I do not have the three little dots next to the comments.
All excited but when I came to the ‘Save As’ step, it would only give me the option of saving as an html webpage file which I can’t of course upload anywhere else…..
Same here. It seems to have worked for others who commented later, but I had the exact same results you’ve described. I wondered what we are not doing correctly.
great and in-depth guide mate 🙂 I will definitely consider reading other guides on your blog.
Facebook’s live video feature is gaining in popularity and for good reason. Very helpful post Kim. Like you said re-purposing the video content on other pages and in offers can be beneficial and in order to do that you need to be able to download it. Thanks for sharing.
I didn’t know I could download a facebook live video. Thank you so much for posting this guide with detailed information. Keep up the good work
Glad it was helpful, Jason!
Yeah…great Trick to download facebook live video. Very nice explanation and easy to understand.keep it up.
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Thanks for sharing it, i search so many times about downloading Facebook videos but never found article like these. It’s really helpful . Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the tutorial, it’s really helpful 🙂
That worked for me…Wow…
I always wanted to download videos from Facebook but never knew how to do it….
Thanks Thanks Thanks… and What about Videos from Instagram?
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Hiya, i did the step by step and guess what the option ‘download video’ is not in the dropdown menu. What else could I do?
facebook is life thanks to it.
Thank you for making that easy and fast!!! Fantastic job!!
Great article with tons of information. Thanks!
Thank you…thank you…thank you…worked like a charm! Been trying to figure this out for a while..
Thank you, guys!!!!This tutorial is really worth seeing, is very useful too.Iv understood it well, and have suggested it to my friends too.I would also recommend you to take a look at this app, that I have been using since past 2 weeks.It is pretty fast and is easy to handle as well.
Fantastic tip as I erroneously recorded a FB Live to my public page – not to my group. It had sensitive information in it – nothing too worrying – but just stuff that wasn’t relevant to others. It look as though the video is downloading right now – so this means that I should be able to edit it a little and repost it in the correct place. What a life-saver. Also, my other FB Live videos on practice building have been widely praised in my community – so I was wondering how to make them into a course. With this help Kim, I think you’ve made it possible. Will report back once the download is complete.
Warmest wishes from a very chilly England!
Yay…didn’t think I could do this…thank you!
Downloading a facebook video is not a difficult task but it requires some simple steps to follow which are described above.
I followed the above-shared tips and I was able to download the video effortlessly.
Thanks for sharing this interesting plus informative article with us.
I tried and tried and still couldn’t get it to work. Any suggestions? Will it work with a video that is in a closed or private group?
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Nice Kim! This one had be stumped for a while, and I am all in all pretty good with social media. Thank you. The “click on the timestamp” tip saved my day!
Very helpful! I have been trying to figure out how to do this. Thank you!!
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I was trying to download my facebook live videos of music performances!
Thanks for this. Does this also capture the audio? I would like to record some lectures that are being streamed live, that’s why. Thanks again.
Captures the video which comes with the audio.
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Thanks for the concise video! I plan on uploading my videos to Youtube and probably editing them to create shorter clips for Instagram
but now FB has chanced the things and it seems to be not a option anymore to download my own Fb live?
How the heck do I even get that sidebar with the “videos” option??? Should I be doing this from a PC? Thanks
Yes, from a location that you can download from 😉
I could not find videos on the sidebar, but next to friends and photos under my page header if I click more I find the video link there.
How can download private video?
THANK YOU!! how can i download in HD..just gives me the SD option..and the video was downloaded in HD
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Hi, Thank you for this guide. 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. It was made especially for facebook video downloading. But it only works on PC. Fortunately, it can convert downloaded video to Android, lol
I am having them transcribed for ease in editing and repurposing into blog posts with actual videos, too. Thanks for this tip, Kim this will speed up the process. Is it necessary to upload to YouTube before using on website…should Facebook decide to eliminate the videos?
It never hurts to have them on YouTube as well, Carla! Another source of traffic for you!
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This doesn’t work anymore, even for your own videos. Facebook took the download functionality away.
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