Facebook launched Lite in couple of Africa and Asia nations in early 2015 and from there the app was broadened to many other regions. Facebook Lite is light in size and doesn't consumes information like the primary app. Apart from these, it also runs well on bad network and efficiently on 2G (GPRS/EDGE) connection. After it was released, lots of new features were added amongst which is the ability to see video shared, published, and that are noticeable on timeline. Nevertheless, Facebook did not give users the ability to download the video.
How To Save Video From Facebook To Phone
There's a catch however, we wagered a lot of you would have see it. You will discover that when you click the video you wish to watch on Facebook Lite, the gamer will initially fill for some seconds before the video start to play. You will also observe that when the video stop playing and you go back possibly to your timeline, if you click the video again it will not take time to pack like the very first time, it will just play directly.
This provide us the sense that the video is being download (cache) someplace when you play it the first time when you attempt to play it once again it will simply fill from where it was cached. Finding where the video is cached is our response.
The treatment we will share does not exist anywhere on the internet, you are lucky to be the first to learn this trick.
On Lite, Facebook usually reveals the size (in megabytes) of the video you are about to watch prior to you click it as shown in the photo above. Pay attention to the megabyte because you are going to need it if you are getting this tutorial right. Now, lets proceed.
You are going to need the following apps, not required however they will help.
1.) ES File Explorer
2.) MX Video Gamer
All videos viewed on Facebook Lite are download in a folder on the phone storage. We recommend you view a video on Lite before you continue, this will produce the folder we will reveal you.
In our own case, we use ES File Explorer. You can use any file supervisor of your choice.
1.) Open ES Explorer, find a folder named "Android". In the "Android" folder you will see another folder called "data", open it. It will lead you to where is shown in the above photo (We alter the folder view to "Medium Particulars" 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, locate "video" folder and open it.
4.) In our own case, there are 4 different folders inside the "video" folder, in yours you may discover more. Nevertheless, it is necessary to let you know that each folder in the "video" folder represent each video you see on Facebook Lite. As you can see, the folders are called in random letters that appears like jargons.
5.) Opening one of these video folders there are two files inside, one named "0000000000000000" and the other "metadata.json". All the folders shown in action 4 includes only these 2 files. The "0000000000000000" file is the video we are looking for. All the 4 folders includes the "0000000000000000" video file and each file represent different video in each of the folder. Each folder is each video you see on Facebook Lite.
6.) If you are utilizing ES, simply click on the "0000000000000000" file to open then choose video from the menu, select a video gamer (or MX Gamer) and BOOMMM! the video will start playing. You can do similarly for other "0000000000000000" files in other video folders to view the cached Facebook Lite videos.
Please Note: The "0000000000000000" does not show as video file when view by file manager since it does not 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 step. You have to open it directly with a video player to be able to deem a video.
Each time you view a video on Facebook Lite, the video is cached (download) on the phone memory card. By following the actions above, you can rename the "00000000000000" which is the video file and enjoy it offline permanently. You can even copy it to a different folder to keep save. Such articles How To Save Video From Facebook To Phone from my thank you for visiting hope can help you.