How To Save Videos From Facebook On Android - In this tutorial, we will be teaching Facebook users the best ways to download or save video on Facebook Lite to their Android phone without using any third-party apps. By following the guidelines listed below, you will be able to directly download videos you view on Facebook Lite to your phone.

Facebook released Lite in couple of Africa and Asia countries in early 2015 and from there the app was broadened to many other areas. Facebook Lite is light in size and doesn't takes in data like the main app. Apart from these, it also runs well on poor network and smoothly on 2G (GPRS/EDGE) connection. After it was launched, numerous brand-new functions were included amongst which is the ability to enjoy video shared, posted, and that show up on timeline. However, Facebook did not offer users the ability to download the video.

How To Save Videos From Facebook On Android

There's a catch though, we bet numerous of you would have notice it. You will see that when you click on the video you want to view on Facebook Lite, the player will initially fill for some seconds before the video start to play. You will also notice that when the video stop playing and you return perhaps to your timeline, if you click the video once again it will not take some time to fill like the very first time, it will just play straight.

This provide us the sense that the video is being download (cache) someplace when you play it the first time when you aim to play it again it will just fill from where it was cached. Locating where the video is cached is our answer.

The procedure we are about to share doesn't exist anywhere on the internet, you are fortunate to be the first to learn this trick.

On Lite, Facebook generally reveals the size (in megabytes) of the video you will watch before you click it as shown in the image above. Take notice of the megabyte due to the fact that you are going to need it if you are getting this tutorial right. Now, lets proceed.

You are going to require the following apps, not needed however they will assist.

1.)  ES File Explorer
2.)  MX Video Player

All videos seen on Facebook Lite are download in a folder on the phone storage. We recommend you watch a video on Lite before you continue, this will develop the folder we are about to show you.

In our own case, we utilize ES File Explorer. You can use any file supervisor of your option.

1.) Open ES Explorer, find a folder named "Android". In the "Android" folder you will see another folder named "information", open it. It will lead you to where is shown in the above picture (We change the folder view to "Medium Details" under More -> View in ES UI). Amongst the folders, you will see one called "com.facebook.lite", open it.

2.) In the "com.facebook.lite" folder you will see "cache" folder, open it.

3.) In the "cache" folder, locate "video" folder and open it.

4.) In our own case, there are four various folders inside the "video" folder, in yours you might discover more. However, it is essential to let you understand that each folder in the "video" folder represent each video you watch on Facebook Lite. As you can see, the folders are called in random letters that looks like lingos.

5.) Opening one of these video folders there are two files inside, one named "0000000000000000" and the other "metadata.json". All the folders shown in action 4 contains only these two files. The "0000000000000000" file is the video we are trying to find. All the 4 folders contains the "0000000000000000" video file and each file represent different video in each of the folder. Each folder is each video you see on Facebook Lite.

6.) If you are using ES, simply click on the "0000000000000000" file to open then choose video from the menu, pick a video player (or MX Player) and BOOMMM! the video will begin playing. You can do likewise for other "0000000000000000" files in other video folders to view the cached Facebook Lite videos.

Please Keep in mind: The "0000000000000000" doesn't show as video file when view by file manager because it does not have a video extension (e.g.MP4, AVI e.t.c). Facebook do this so that video players set up will not have the ability to bring it when scanning the phone. It's a security step. You have to open it straight with a video gamer to be able to consider as a video.

 

Each time you enjoy a video on Facebook Lite, the video is cached (download) on the phone sd card. By following the steps above, you can relabel the "00000000000000" which is the video file and watch it offline permanently. You can even copy it to a different folder to keep conserve. Such articles How To Save Videos From Facebook On Android from my thank you for visiting hope can help you.

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