Facebook is a good platform to post some of the best videos especially when they relate to your friends or family. I also find that Facebook video supports higher resolution upload than YouTube. Whilst grabbing YouTube video is a breeze, leeching Facebook video is a little harder. Finally here’s how you’ll do it…
Go to your Facebook video page or your friends’
1. Note the link of your page and note especially the ‘video.php?v=37511833824′ part of the URL. Take down the ID number ‘37511833824′.
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2. Now replace your ID with this link: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=ID and it’ll become http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=37511833824. Open this in your browser.
3. Next click View | Page Source in Firefox or View | Source in Internet Explorer. Search the source for ‘.flv’. This is where the flash video is based.
4. Copy this into Notepad or something similar. This URL is not in a final form yet. What we need to do is to replace the %2f with ‘/’.
5. That’s it. You can now paste this new link into the browser and download the video directly from Facebook.
You will note that the
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