At the top you can see the direct link to the video in the address bar.This will open a tab with a video player, but the video won't play or download, because we need to modify the link first. webm links (doesn't matter which) and choose 'Open in new tab'. They're somewhat shortened but you can see them if you know where to look: You can spot the difference between audio and video by looking for extensions near the start of the link. Which links are audio and video? Well, they'll be really long, with lots of numbers, and their 'type' will be listed as 'Fetch' in the third column.Then you can press the stop button at the top left of the network tab. You just need to let the video play a few seconds, until two specific types of link appear. But because the video is still playing, these links (and others) keep constantly appearing. The bottom section shows direct links to streaming audio and video. You only need to do this once, and then it'll show this section by default in the future. Then, within the network window, there's a bunch of different types of data you can view. The code inspector window may appear on the right side, but I keep it docked on the bottom of the page, might be easier to follow along if you do the same.Īt the top of the inspector window are some tabs like 'Elements', 'Console', etc. You can also right click an empty area of the page and choose 'Inspect'.

Now ctrl+shift+I (in chrome) to bring up the 'Code inspector' window, which is built into most modern browsers.In this example, the max quality available is only 720p so that's what I'm choosing. Go to the video page, get the video to play, and choose the quality you want using the gear icon at the bottom right of the video.Instructions in this imgur album also, might be easier with all the screenshots: It has a blue-green icon and comes from.

For that type of video, you can use the 'Facebook video downloader' plugin for Chrome. Also, someone pointed out an unusual case where a video doesn't list resolutions with numbers, it shows 'SD' and 'HD' under the gear icon. So here's a bulletproof way to do this (until it changes again). This keeps changing, apparently the April method now results in downloading a random recommendation instead of the video you wanted.

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