Facebook Downloader: Videos, Reels and Photos in HD
Facebook plays its videos, reels and photos in its own player and viewer, with no download button for anything you did not post. NeoDownloader downloads them by address: copy a reel, a video or a Watch link, paste one or many, and each comes back as an MP4 with picture and sound, named after its title or the reel's caption. Photos of a page or a profile download the same way once you have signed in to Facebook inside the program.
Facebook Video Downloader vs Online Tools and Chrome Extensions
Online tools and extensions
- Handle a single reel or video per paste
- Facebook sends an HD video's picture and sound as separate streams
- Send every Facebook link to a third-party site
- Bury the result under banners and pop-ups
- Nothing records which page a video came from
NeoDownloader
- Downloads a whole list of reel and video links as one project
- Picture and sound put together into one MP4 file
- Your computer downloads from Facebook directly
- No banners: an installed program
- Every file remembers the Facebook post it came from
How to Download Videos from Facebook
Facebook lets you download the reels and videos you posted yourself. For other public videos and reels, three steps:
One-time setup: download NeoDownloader and install it. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The steps below are what you repeat each time.
- 1Facebookfacebook.com/reel/…
Copy a Facebook Video Address
Open the reel or video on Facebook in your browser and copy the address bar - a reel looks like https://www.facebook.com/reel/… - or copy the link its Share button offers. Gather several by copying them one after another.
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ProjectsNew projectWhat do you want to download?
facebook.com/reel/…
NextPaste It into NeoDownloader
Click New project; the address is pasted for you, and others can be added one per line. Click Next, and the following step asks for the highest quality you want.
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Name and folder
Create projectCreate the Project
Pick a folder and click Create project. The MP4 files start landing right away, picture and sound together, each named after the video's title or the reel's caption.
Download Facebook Videos in HD, with Sound
Facebook plays an HD video from two streams, one for the picture and one for the sound. NeoDownloader downloads both and puts them together into one MP4 file, so every video plays with its sound - reels included.
You choose the highest quality while creating the project, and you get Facebook's best version up to it. The free version stops at 1080p; Premium continues above it when Facebook has more. Files are saved untouched, without upscaling or re-encoding.
No Facebook account is needed: public videos and reels download without signing in.
Download Facebook Reels and Videos by Their Addresses
- A reel - facebook.com/reel/…
- A video on a page - facebook.com/…/videos/…
- A Watch link - facebook.com/watch/?v=…
- A link from the Share button - facebook.com/share/…
- The same addresses on the mobile site - m.facebook.com/…
- A batch of videos - their links one per line, saved as a single project
How to Download Photos from Facebook
Photos are different: Facebook shows them only to signed-in visitors. Four steps, the sign-in among them:
- 1Facebookfacebook.com/NASA/photos
Copy a Page or Profile Address
On Facebook, open the page or the profile and copy the address bar; for its Photos tab that is https://www.facebook.com/…/photos. The profile's own address will do as well.
- 2ProjectsNew project
What do you want to download?
facebook.com/NASA/photos
NextPaste It into NeoDownloader
In NeoDownloader, click New project with that address in the field and press Next. This time the plugin on offer is Gallery Downloader, and its card says “This address needs a sign-in”.
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Sign in on the site
ContinueCancelSign In to Facebook
Choose a folder and click Create project. If you have not signed in to Facebook in NeoDownloader yet, it shows Facebook's login form in a window of its own rather than in your everyday browser. Log in there, press Continue, and later photo projects start without asking again.
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NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Photos (pb.100044561550831.-2207520000)
Get the Photos
Each photo arrives at the largest size Facebook displays, filed in a folder named after the page and the album. Facebook treats these downloads as activity of your account.
Facebook Video Downloader Features
What happens to reels, videos and lists of them
Reels and Videos Alike
Download Facebook reels the same way as videos: paste the reel's address, and it arrives as an MP4 file named with its caption.
Many Links, One Project
Collected reels in a chat or a note? Paste the links one under another, and they download side by side into one project, sound included.
Every Video Knows Its Page
A video is named after its title and a reel after its caption. The post it came from stays one click away: its address sits under “Found on” in the file's properties, and “Open in browser” reopens the post itself.
Watch Them in the App
Facebook often uses AV1 or VP9 video, which some older players refuse. NeoDownloader plays it itself: double-click a file and step through the rest of the project.
Facebook Downloader FAQ
Is there a free Facebook video downloader?
Yes. You can download NeoDownloader for free; it saves Facebook reels and videos with sound, from a single link or several. The free version has no time limit; Premium lifts its limits on the number of files per project.
How do I download a video from Facebook?
Facebook's own download option covers only the reels and videos you posted. For anyone else's public video, copy the address from your browser and paste it into NeoDownloader's “New project” window; an MP4 with sound lands in your folder.
Can I download Facebook reels?
Yes, the same way as videos: copy the reel's address (facebook.com/reel/…), paste it into “New project”, and the reel is saved as an MP4 whose name is its caption.
Can I paste a link from Facebook's Share button?
Yes. A link copied from the Share button - facebook.com/share/… - leads to the video's own address, and NeoDownloader follows it there. Some such links lead to a post Facebook shows only to signed-in people, and for those the “New project” window says “This address needs a sign-in”.
How do I download multiple Facebook videos at once?
Put the links in “New project”, one on each line. They download together and stay together as one project.
Can I download all the videos of a Facebook page?
Not with one address: the Videos and Reels tabs of a page are not something NeoDownloader reads. Open the videos you want, copy each address and paste them all, one per line, into “New project”.
Can I download photos from Facebook?
Yes, once you are signed in, since Facebook hides photos from visitors who are not. Paste a page's or a profile's address into “New project”; the first time, NeoDownloader opens Facebook in its own browser for the sign-in. Each photo is saved at the largest size Facebook shows.
What quality are Facebook videos downloaded in?
Whatever is best on Facebook for that video, as long as it is within the quality you chose for the project. Free users get up to 1080p; Premium unlocks the higher versions Facebook keeps. Nothing is upscaled or re-encoded.
Do the downloaded Facebook videos have sound?
Yes. Facebook sends an HD video's picture and sound as separate streams; NeoDownloader downloads both and puts them together into one MP4 file.
Do I need a Facebook account?
Not for videos: public videos and reels download from Facebook without signing in. Photos need one, because Facebook opens them only to people who are signed in.
Is there a Facebook video downloader online or as an extension?
Neither. NeoDownloader is a program on your computer: you paste a whole list of Facebook links at once, and the videos travel from Facebook to your folder without a website in the middle.
What format are Facebook videos saved in?
MP4, with the picture and the sound in one file. The picture is often AV1 or VP9, as it is on Facebook; some older players cannot open these, and NeoDownloader plays them itself.
Ready to Download from Facebook?
Start a project with a reel or video link and keep the MP4 with its sound. The free version has no time limit.
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