Facebook is a good platform to post some
of the best videos especially when they relate to your friends or
family. I also find that Facebook video supports higher resolution
upload than YouTube. Whilst grabbing YouTube video is a breeze,
leeching Facebook video is a little harder. Finally here’s how you’ll
do it…

Go to your Facebook video page or your friends’
1. Note the link of your page and note especially the
‘video.php?v=37511833824? part of the URL. Take down the ID number
‘37511833824?.
![Translate the link by using the v=[ID] to this form](http://static.danielpoon.com.s3.amazonaws.com/lifehacking/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/facebookvid2.thumbnail.jpg)
2. Now replace your ID with this link:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=ID and it’ll become
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=37511833824. Open this in
your browser.

3. Next click View | Page Source in Firefox or View | Source
in
Internet Explorer. Search the source for ‘.flv’. This is where the
flash video is based.

4. Copy this into Notepad or something similar. This URL is
not in a
final form yet. What we need to do is to replace the %2f with
‘/’.

5. That’s it. You can now paste this new link into the browser
and download the video directly from Facebook.

You will note that the