Facebook released Lite in couple of Africa and Asia nations in early 2015 and from there the app was expanded to lots of other regions. Facebook Lite is light in size and doesn't takes in information like the primary app. Apart from these, it likewise runs well on poor network and efficiently on 2G (GPRS/EDGE) connection. After it was released, many brand-new features were included amongst which is the capability to watch video shared, posted, which are noticeable on timeline. Nevertheless, Facebook did not offer users the ability to download the video.
How To Save Facebook Videos To Your Phone
There's a catch though, we bet much of you would have notice it. You will see that when you click the video you wish to watch on Facebook Lite, the player will first load for some seconds before the video begin to play. You will likewise notice 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 directly.
This give us the sense that the video is being download (cache) someplace when you play it the very first time and when you attempt to play it again it will just load from where it was cached. Finding where the video is cached is our response.
The treatment we will share doesn't exist anywhere on the web, you are lucky to be the very first to discover this technique.
On Lite, Facebook generally reveals the size (in megabytes) of the video you are about to see prior to you click it as displayed in the picture above. Focus on the megabyte because you are going to require it if you are getting this guide right. Now, lets proceed.
You are going to require the following apps, not essential however they will help.
1.) ES File Explorer
2.) MX Video Player
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 produce the folder we are about to reveal you.
In our own case, we use ES File Explorer. You can utilize any file manager of your choice.
1.) Open ES Explorer, locate a folder called "Android". In the "Android" folder you will see another folder called "information", open it. It will lead you to where is displayed in the above pic (We change 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 various folders inside the "video" folder, in yours you may discover more. Nevertheless, it is crucial 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 called in random letters that looks like lingos.
5.) Opening among these video folders there are two files inside, one named "0000000000000000" and the other "metadata.json". All the folders displayed in action 4 consists of just these 2 files. The "0000000000000000" file is the video we are trying to find. 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 watch on Facebook Lite.
6.) If you are using ES, just click on the "0000000000000000" file to open then choose video from the menu, select a video player (or MX Gamer) and BOOMMM! the video will begin playing. You can do likewise for other "0000000000000000" files in other video folders to watch the cached Facebook Lite videos.
Please Keep in mind: The "0000000000000000" does not show as video file when view by file manager because it doesn't have a video extension (e.g.MP4, AVI e.t.c). Facebook do this so that video gamers installed will not have the ability to bring it when scanning the phone. It's a security procedure. You need to open it directly with a video gamer to be able to see as a video.
Whenever 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 forever. You can even copy it to a different folder to keep conserve. Such articles How To Save Facebook Videos To Your Phone from my thank you for visiting hope can help you.