How To Save A Video 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 standards listed below, you will have the ability to directly download videos you see on Facebook Lite to your phone.

Facebook launched Lite in few Africa and Asia nations in early 2015 and from there the app was expanded to numerous other regions. Facebook Lite is light in size and does not takes in information like the primary app. Apart from these, it also runs well on poor network and efficiently on 2G (GPRS/EDGE) connection. After it was launched, many new functions were included among which is the ability to view video shared, posted, which show up on timeline. Nevertheless, Facebook did not provide users the ability to download the video.

How To Save A Video From Facebook On Android

There's a catch though, we bet a number of you would have discover it. You will notice that when you click the video you desire to see on Facebook Lite, the gamer will first load for some seconds prior to the video begin to play. You will also see that when the video stop playing and you return possibly to your timeline, if you click the video once again it won't take time to fill like the first time, it will simply play directly.

This provide us the sense that the video is being download (cache) somewhere when you play it the first time and when you attempt to play it again it will simply pack from where it was cached. Finding where the video is cached is our response.

The treatment we are about to share does not exist anywhere on the web, you are fortunate to be the very first to learn this technique.

On Lite, Facebook normally shows the size (in megabytes) of the video you are about to enjoy before you click it as revealed in the picture above. Take note of the megabyte since you are going to require it if you are going to get this tutorial right. Now, lets proceed.

You are going to need the following apps, not needed but they will help.

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

All videos enjoyed on Facebook Lite are download in a folder on the phone storage. We recommend you view a video on Lite prior to you continue, this will develop the folder we are about to reveal you.

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

1.) Open ES Explorer, locate a folder named "Android". In the "Android" folder you will see another folder named "data", open it. It will lead you to where is displayed in the above picture (We alter the folder view to "Medium Details" under More -> View in ES UI). Among 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, find "video" folder and open it.

4.) In our own case, there are four different folders inside the "video" folder, in yours you might find more. However, it is very important to let you understand that each folder in the "video" folder represent each video you view 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 called "0000000000000000" and the other "metadata.json". All the folders displayed in step 4 includes only these two files. The "0000000000000000" file is the video we are looking for. All the four folders contains the "0000000000000000" video file and each file represent different video in each of the folder. Each folder is each video you watch on Facebook Lite.

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

Please Note: The "0000000000000000" does not reveal as video file when view by file supervisor since it doesn't have a video extension (e.g.MP4, AVI e.t.c). Facebook do this so that video gamers set up will not have the ability to bring it when scanning the phone. It's a security measure. You need to open it straight with a video gamer to be able to deem 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 rename the "00000000000000" which is the video file and view it offline forever. You can even copy it to a separate folder to keep save. Such articles How To Save A Video From Facebook On Android from my thank you for visiting hope can help you.

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