Facebook introduced Lite in couple of Africa and Asia countries in early 2015 and from there the app was broadened to numerous other regions. Facebook Lite is light in size and doesn't takes in data like the primary app. Apart from these, it also runs well on poor network and smoothly on 2G (GPRS/EDGE) connection. After it was launched, numerous new functions were added among which is the capability to view video shared, posted, and that are noticeable on timeline. However, Facebook did not give users the capability to download the video.
How To Save Videos From Facebook On Android
There's a catch though, we bet a number of you would have see it. You will observe that when you click on the video you desire to enjoy on Facebook Lite, the player will initially pack for some seconds before the video start to play. You will likewise observe that when the video stop playing and you go back perhaps to your timeline, if you click the video once again it won't take time to pack like the very first time, it will just play straight.
This provide us the sense that the video is being download (cache) someplace when you play it the very first time when you attempt to play it once again it will just pack from where it was cached. Finding where the video is cached is our response.
The procedure we will share doesn't exist anywhere on the web, you are lucky to be the first to learn this technique.
On Lite, Facebook generally reveals the size (in megabytes) of the video you are about to view before you click it as displayed in the picture above. Pay attention to the megabyte since you are going to require it if you are going to get this tutorial right. Now, lets continue.
You are going to require the following apps, not needed 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 suggest you view a video on Lite before you continue, this will develop the folder we are about to reveal you.
In our own case, we utilize ES File Explorer. You can utilize any file supervisor of your choice.
1.) Open ES Explorer, find a folder called "Android". In the "Android" folder you will see another folder called "data", 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). 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, find "video" folder and open it.
4.) In our own case, there are four different folders inside the "video" folder, in yours you may discover more. However, it is essential to let you understand that each folder in the "video" folder represent each video you view on Facebook Lite. As you can see, the folders are named in random letters that looks like lingos.
5.) Opening one of these video folders there are two files inside, one named "0000000000000000" and the other "metadata.json". All the folders revealed in step 4 contains just these 2 files. The "0000000000000000" file is the video we are searching for. All the four folders includes 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 utilizing ES, just click the "0000000000000000" file to open then choose video from the menu, choose a video player (or MX Gamer) and BOOMMM! the video will start playing. You can do likewise for other "0000000000000000" files in other video folders to see the cached Facebook Lite videos.
Please Note: The "0000000000000000" doesn't reveal as video file when view by file supervisor because it doesn't have a video extension (e.g.MP4, AVI e.t.c). Facebook do this so that video gamers installed won't have the ability to bring it when scanning the phone. It's a security procedure. You need to open it straight with a video player to be able to deem a video.
Each time you enjoy 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 conserve. Such articles How To Save Videos From Facebook On Android from my thank you for visiting hope can help you.