Facebook introduced Lite in few Africa and Asia nations in early 2015 and from there the app was expanded to numerous other areas. Facebook Lite is light in size and doesn't consumes data like the primary app. Apart from these, it also runs well on poor network and efficiently on 2G (GPRS/EDGE) connection. After it was introduced, lots of new features were added among which is the ability to view video shared, posted, and that are visible on timeline. Nevertheless, Facebook did not give users the ability to download the video.
How To Save A Video On Facebook To Your Phone
There's a catch though, we wagered numerous of you would have observe it. You will observe that when you click the video you desire to view on Facebook Lite, the gamer will initially pack for some seconds before the video start to play. You will likewise discover that when the video stop playing and you go back maybe to your timeline, if you click the video again it will not take some time to load like the very first time, it will simply 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 aim to play it again it will simply pack from where it was cached. Locating where the video is cached is our answer.
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On Lite, Facebook generally reveals the size (in megabytes) of the video you will watch before you click it as shown in the photo above. Focus on the megabyte due to the fact that you are going to need it if you are getting this guide right. Now, lets continue.
You are going to need the following apps, not needed but they will help.
1.) ES File Explorer
2.) MX Video Gamer
All videos watched on Facebook Lite are download in a folder on the phone storage. We suggest you see a video on Lite prior to 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, locate a folder named "Android". In the "Android" folder you will see another folder called "information", open it. It will lead you to where is shown in the above picture (We change the folder view to "Medium Particulars" 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 4 various folders inside the "video" folder, in yours you might find more. Nevertheless, it is necessary to let you understand that each folder in the "video" folder represent each video you enjoy on Facebook Lite. As you can see, the folders are named in random letters that appears 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 action 4 consists of only these 2 files. The "0000000000000000" file is the video we are trying to find. All the four folders consists of the "0000000000000000" video file and each file represent different video in each of the folder. Each folder is each video you view on Facebook Lite.
6.) If you are utilizing ES, just click on the "0000000000000000" file to open then choose video from the menu, select a video gamer (or MX Player) and BOOMMM! the video will start playing. You can do also for other "0000000000000000" files in other video folders to view the cached Facebook Lite videos.
Please Keep in mind: The "0000000000000000" doesn't reveal as video file when view by file supervisor since it does not have a video extension (e.g.MP4, AVI e.t.c). Facebook do this so that video gamers installed will not be able to fetch it when scanning the phone. It's a security step. You have to open it straight with a video gamer to be able to consider as a video.
Every time you watch a video on Facebook Lite, the video is cached (download) on the phone sd card. By following the actions above, you can relabel the "00000000000000" which is the video file and see it offline forever. You can even copy it to a separate folder to keep save. Such articles How To Save A Video On Facebook To Your Phone from my thank you for visiting hope can help you.