Facebook Downloader · Reels, Stories, LiveSave any public Facebook video, Reel, Story, or Live replay to MP4 in HD up to 4K. No app, no signup, no watermark. Just paste and download.
✓ Pre-configured for Facebook
From URL to saved file in under 20 seconds. Works the same way on desktop, iOS, and Android — only the copy-link step differs by surface.
On desktop, click the timestamp on the video post and copy the URL from the address bar — or right-click the video and choose "Show video URL". In the mobile app, tap the three-dot menu (feed video), the share arrow (Reel), or the Stories share icon, then "Copy link". For embedded videos on third-party sites, copy the source URL from the iframe.
Paste the URL into the input field at the top of this page. MediaFetcher auto-detects facebook.com, fb.watch, and m.facebook.com URLs, unlocks the Download button, and fetches the video info from Facebook's CDN with no intermediate caching.
The preview screen shows every available resolution — typically 1080p for feed videos and Reels, and whatever the creator uploaded for professional content (up to 4K). Click your chosen quality and the MP4 saves directly to your device with zero re-encoding and no watermark.
Facebook is not one format. Feed posts, Reels, Stories, Live replays, shared videos, and embeds all behave differently. Here is what MediaFetcher can and cannot do with each.
Any video posted to a public page, public profile, or public group works. Paste the post URL (desktop) or the share-sheet link (mobile app) and MediaFetcher streams the highest available variant — usually 1080p, sometimes 2K or 4K for creator-uploaded content.
Reels URLs (facebook.com/reel/..., fb.watch/r/...) download exactly like feed videos. The vertical 9:16 aspect ratio is preserved, audio tracks are kept in sync, and the file lands without the Facebook Reels watermark overlay. This page works as a dedicated Facebook Reels downloader: paste a Reel link, pick MP4, and save.
Stories from public pages and profiles can be saved before the 24-hour expiry window closes. The catch: you need the direct Story URL, which Facebook makes easy to copy from the three-dot menu on desktop but harder on mobile. Once expired, a Story is gone from Facebook entirely and no downloader can recover it.
Once a Facebook Live broadcast ends and Facebook finishes processing the VOD (usually within a few minutes), the replay URL behaves like any other video. Paste it, choose quality, download. Actively running live streams are not supported — wait for the broadcast to finish first.
MediaFetcher does not bypass Facebook's login wall. If a post is restricted to friends-only or to a closed group, the public downloader cannot see it. What does work: videos posted to a group you are a member of, copied via the public embed URL when the group owner has enabled embedding. If you cannot open the video in an incognito window, no third-party tool can download it either.
News sites, blogs, and forums frequently embed Facebook videos via the official embed iframe. Right-click the embedded video, copy the source URL (or open it in a new tab), and paste that link into MediaFetcher. The underlying video is fetched from Facebook's CDN at original quality.
Facebook Reels is the fastest-growing format on Meta and a sub-niche many users search for directly. This page is optimised to work as a dedicated Facebook Reels downloader — the Reels workflow is identical to the feed-video workflow, and the Reels card above covers every edge case. If you landed here looking specifically for Reels, paste your Reel URL in the field at the top of the page. The same tool serves TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts from the TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube downloaders respectively.
Search "facebook video downloader" on any search engine and the top results form a pattern. Sites that bury a working tool under three banners of pornography adverts. Sites that pop an interstitial before every download. Sites that inject tracking pixels from half a dozen ad networks. Sites that promise 4K and deliver 720p behind a paywall. Nearly every tool in the category is hostile to the person using it — which is strange, because the underlying job is simple.
MediaFetcher takes the opposite approach. The page is entirely free, with no premium tier, no daily cap, and no "upgrade to unlock HD" friction. There are no ads anywhere on this page — open your devtools and watch the network tab, there are no third-party requests because there are no third-party scripts. No analytics, no cookie banner, no fingerprinting. The page weighs under 80 KB of JavaScript, which is why it loads instantly even on a slow mobile connection.
Technically, the tool asks Facebook's servers for the highest quality variant available for each video, saves it exactly as delivered, and hands you the MP4 with no recompression. The file you get is bit-for-bit what Facebook's CDN serves to a premium mobile device on a fast connection. Nothing is added, nothing is stripped, nothing is watermarked. It is the actual original.
MediaFetcher also covers every content type on Facebook — feed videos, Reels, Stories, Live replays, shared videos from public groups, embedded videos on third-party sites — rather than just the front-page happy path. If Facebook shows it to an incognito browser, MediaFetcher can save it.
If you are used to fighting popups and fake download buttons on every other Facebook downloader, the silence here may be disorienting at first. That is intended.
Not pirates. Mostly people with perfectly ordinary reasons for wanting a local copy of a Facebook video.
Archive your own Page content before Facebook changes its UI again or deprecates another feature. Save the Reel you posted six months ago so you can reuse it on a new campaign, repost it to Instagram, or drop it into a slide deck. Your content is yours — a local backup is the most basic insurance.
Instagram downloader →News researchers and open-source investigators routinely save public Facebook videos as primary-source evidence before posts get deleted, edited, or privatised. A Facebook video cited in a story needs to exist somewhere other than Facebook. MediaFetcher delivers the original MP4 with its metadata intact — the forensic quality is identical to the file Meta serves.
Moderators of Facebook groups and public pages frequently need to save evidence of rule violations, harassment, or coordinated bad behaviour before the offending content is deleted. A screenshot is not enough when the content is a video. MediaFetcher saves the video in full quality for the record, which matters if you ever need to involve platform safety teams or law enforcement.
Creators learning what works on Facebook Reels need reference libraries — not random scrolling. Save the top Reels in your niche into a local folder, open them in your editor frame by frame, and reverse-engineer the hooks, pacing, and audio choices. MediaFetcher preserves original quality so the frame-level analysis is reliable.
Threads downloader →Honest comparison against the three Facebook downloaders most people land on. Numbers, not opinions — checked against the actual live sites in early 2026.
| Feature | MediaFetcher | FDown | FBDown | SnapSave |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zero ads, zero popups | ||||
| No signup, no email | ||||
| Facebook Reels supported | ||||
| Facebook Stories supported | Partial | Partial | ||
| HD 1080p free | ||||
| 2K / 4K when source allows | Paid | |||
| Zero third-party trackers | ||||
| Works on iPhone Safari | Partial | Partial | ||
| Fake download buttons | ||||
| 13-platform support | Limited |
Comparison reflects the free tier of each tool as observed in early 2026. FBDown offers a paid upgrade that removes some limitations. MediaFetcher has no paid tier.
Short answer: yes for public content and personal use. The nuance is worth reading.
Copyright law in most Western jurisdictions recognises a concept called fair use (United States) or fair dealing (UK, Canada, Australia). Under these doctrines, making a personal, non-commercial copy of a work you have lawful access to — for time-shifting, format-shifting, study, criticism, research, or reporting — is generally lawful. Saving a public Facebook video to rewatch offline is functionally identical to recording a TV broadcast with a VCR — the 1984 Sony Betamax decision in the US established that kind of format-shifting as fair use, and the logic has held ever since.
Public versus private content is where most confusion lives. A video posted to a public Page or public profile, visible to any incognito browser without signing in, is indexed by search engines and retrievable by any third-party tool. Saving that video raises no novel legal question. A video posted behind a "friends only" privacy setting or inside a closed group is a different story — but MediaFetcher does not bypass login walls and does not have the technical ability to reach those videos in the first place. If you cannot open a Facebook video in an incognito window, no public downloader can reach it.
Meta's Terms of Service prohibit scraping and automated collection of data. Those terms are a private contract between you and Meta, not criminal law. Breaking them can get your account suspended; it cannot get you arrested. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has long defended fair-use downloading tools, including during the 2020 episode when the RIAA tried to have youtube-dl removed from GitHub and the EFF forced a reversal. The same legal reasoning applies to Facebook downloaders.
Facebook Reels add one wrinkle: Meta licences third-party music for creators to sync into Reels through its own deals with the major labels. When you download a Reel, the licensed audio is baked into the file. That is fine for personal use. Republishing that same Reel to TikTok, YouTube Shorts, or any other platform may trigger Content ID claims on those platforms because their licensing is separate. Journalism and criticism uses — quoting a Reel in a news report, analysing it for a review — sit comfortably under fair use even with the music included. Commercial reposts do not.
What is not legal, anywhere, is redistributing copyrighted Facebook content as if it were your own. Downloading a news outlet's video to watch offline is fine; re-uploading it to your Page for ad revenue is copyright infringement. Downloading a creator's Reel to study the edit is fine; reposting it without credit is not. The rule of thumb is straightforward — personal consumption is safe, commercial republication needs a licence.
This is general information, not legal advice. If your use case involves journalism with commercial distribution, talk to an actual lawyer in your jurisdiction.
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