Facebook launched Lite in few Africa and Asia nations in early 2015 and from there the app was expanded to many other regions. Facebook Lite is light in size and doesn't consumes information like the main app. Apart from these, it likewise runs well on bad network and smoothly on 2G (GPRS/EDGE) connection. After it was introduced, numerous new functions were included amongst which is the ability to see video shared, published, and that show up on timeline. However, Facebook did not provide users the ability to download the video.
How To Save Facebook Videos On Android
There's a catch however, we bet much of you would have observe it. You will discover that when you click the video you desire to watch on Facebook Lite, the player will initially fill for some seconds prior to the video begin 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 again it won't 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 try to play it again it will just fill from where it was cached. Finding where the video is cached is our answer.
The treatment we will share does not exist anywhere on the internet, you are fortunate to be the very first to learn this trick.
On Lite, Facebook typically reveals the size (in megabytes) of the video you are about to watch before you click it as revealed in the picture above. Pay attention to the megabyte because you are going to need it if you are going to get this guide right. Now, lets continue.
You are going to need the following apps, not needed however they will help.
1.) ES File Explorer
2.) MX Video Player
All videos seen on Facebook Lite are download in a folder on the phone storage. We suggest you view a video on Lite before you continue, this will produce the folder we will show you.
In our own case, we use ES File Explorer. You can utilize any file manager of your option.
1.) Open ES Explorer, locate a folder called "Android". In the "Android" folder you will see another folder named "information", open it. It will lead you to where is revealed in the above photo (We change the folder view to "Medium Details" under More -> View in ES UI). Amongst the folders, you will see one named "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 four various folders inside the "video" folder, in yours you might find more. However, it is crucial to let you know that each folder in the "video" folder represent each video you view on Facebook Lite. As you can see, the folders are called in random letters that looks like lingos.
5.) Opening one of these video folders there are 2 files inside, one called "0000000000000000" and the other "metadata.json". All the folders displayed in action 4 includes only these 2 files. The "0000000000000000" file is the video we are looking for. All the four folders contains the "0000000000000000" video file and each file represent different video in each of the folder. Each folder is each video you watch on Facebook Lite.
6.) If you are using ES, simply click on the "0000000000000000" file to open then select video from the menu, select a video player (or MX Gamer) and BOOMMM! the video will begin playing. You can do similarly for other "0000000000000000" files in other video folders to enjoy the cached Facebook Lite videos.
Please Note: The "0000000000000000" does not show as video file when view by file manager since it doesn't have a video extension (e.g.MP4, AVI e.t.c). Facebook do this so that video gamers installed will not be able to bring it when scanning the phone. It's a security step. You have to open it straight with a video player to be able to see as a video.
Each time you watch a video on Facebook Lite, the video is cached (download) on the phone memory card. By following the actions above, you can relabel the "00000000000000" which is the video file and watch it offline permanently. You can even copy it to a separate folder to keep save. Such articles How To Save Facebook Videos On Android from my thank you for visiting hope can help you.