How To Save Facebook Videos 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 below, you will be able to straight download videos you watch on Facebook Lite to your phone.

Facebook launched Lite in couple of Africa and Asia countries in early 2015 and from there the app was expanded to lots of other regions. Facebook Lite is light in size and does not consumes information 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, many brand-new features were added among which is the capability to enjoy video shared, published, and that are noticeable on timeline. However, Facebook did not provide users the capability to download the video.

How To Save Facebook Videos On Android

There's a catch however, we wagered much of you would have observe it. You will notice that when you click the video you desire to enjoy on Facebook Lite, the gamer will first fill for some seconds prior to the video start to play. You will also notice that when the video stop playing and you go back maybe to your timeline, if you click the video once again it will not take time to fill like the first time, it will simply play directly.

This give us the sense that the video is being download (cache) someplace when you play it the very first time and when you try to play it again it will simply load from where it was cached. Finding where the video is cached is our answer.

The treatment we will share doesn't exist anywhere on the web, you are lucky to be the very first to discover this trick.

On Lite, Facebook normally reveals the size (in megabytes) of the video you are about to enjoy before you click it as shown in the photo above. Pay attention to the megabyte due to the fact that you are going to require it if you are going to get this tutorial right. Now, lets continue.

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

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

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 will reveal you.

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

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 displayed in the above picture (We change the folder view to "Medium Particulars" 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, find "video" folder and open it.

4.) In our own case, there are four different folders inside the "video" folder, in yours you may discover more. Nevertheless, 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 jargons.

5.) Opening one of these video folders there are 2 files inside, one named "0000000000000000" and the other "metadata.json". All the folders displayed in step 4 includes only these 2 files. The "0000000000000000" file is the video we are trying to find. All the 4 folders includes the "0000000000000000" video file and each file represent various 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 Gamer) and BOOMMM! the video will start playing. You can do similarly for other "0000000000000000" files in other video folders to watch the cached Facebook Lite videos.

Please Note: The "0000000000000000" doesn't reveal as video file when view by file supervisor because it doesn't have a video extension (e.g.MP4, AVI e.t.c). Facebook do this so that video players installed will not have the ability to fetch it when scanning the phone. It's a security step. You have to open it directly with a video player to be able to deem a video.

 

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

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