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!
Yes they have Nicoli :-).
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 😉
Thanks for this wonderful article. It helped me a lot. So useful.I’ll refer this site to my friends
You can save any FB Live video using the instructions.
great and in-depth guide mate 🙂 I will definitely consider reading other guides on your blog.
Glad it was helpful, Jason!
Glad it was helpful!
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 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..
Yay…didn’t think I could do this…thank you!
Captures the video which comes with the audio.
Glad you found some value here :-).
It never hurts to have them on YouTube as well, Carla! Another source of traffic for you!
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Unforunately, savefrom net is no longer an option. Any suggestion?
Save from.net does not exist anymore in the US as of April 28, 2020. Is there another app or service that can do the same thing?
The save.net site has closed down and no longer provides the download. Do you know of any other current capture app I could download to save my FB live videos?
I mean the savefrom.net site
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