#Download facebook video with vlc mp4
#Download facebook video with vlc full

There is always one, as that's how it works. Find the playlist/manifest with the developer tools network tab.

The HLS Downloader extension is free and open source under the MIT license if you want to see the code it can be found on its project page on Github. If you use the same configuration options all the time for youtube-dl you may want to take a look at the configuration options for youtube-dl, as this can save you a lot of typing. ' = This is the link to the playlist you copied from the HLS Downloader extension. o 'file-name-to-save-as.mp4' = Name of the file to save the video as.

#Download facebook video with vlc mp4

youtube-dl -all-subs -f mp4 -o 'file-name-to-save-as.mp4' ' Explanation of command line options: Then use the youtube-dl program to download the file. Clicking on the icon you can then see a list of the playlist link and then use the copy button next to a link to copy it. Its icon in the browser bar will show the number of playlists found on the current webpage. Use the HLS Downloader Google Chrome extension to get the link to the M3U playlist. If you are more into command line, use FFMPEG or your own script, as directed in this SuperUser question. If the page doesn't work, you can always google another one by 'vlc download online video'. I'm not going to go into details on this part here, there are a number of comprehensive guides in many places, for example, here. If you have VLC player installed, feed the URL to VLC using the ' Open NetworkвЂ¦' menu option. There are many ways to do it, I'll give you those I tried, but you can google more by 'download video from m3u8'.

#Download facebook video with vlc full

Under the Headers subsection you will see request's full URL in the Request URL field. There may be many of them, but most likely the first or largest is the one you are looking for.

Search through the names of requests and find the request with.

The tab will get populated with a list of requests (may be up to a hundred of them or even more).

Go to Network tab and then reload the page.

Open the browser's Dev Tools (usually F12, or Ctrl-Shift-I, or right-click and then Inspect in the popup menu) on the page with the video you are interested in.

I tried this on Chrome only, but this method should work with any other browser, though, as Dev Tools are pretty much the same in them all. I just came up with a general solution, which should work on most websites.