Facebook released Lite in few 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 information like the main app. Apart from these, it also runs well on poor network and efficiently on 2G (GPRS/EDGE) connection. After it was introduced, many new features were included amongst which is the ability to see video shared, posted, and that are visible on timeline. However, Facebook did not provide users the capability to download the video.
How To Save A Video From Facebook On Android
There's a catch though, we bet much of you would have see it. You will discover that when you click the video you desire to see 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 perhaps to your timeline, if you click the video again it won't take some time to fill like the first time, it will simply play straight.
This offer us the sense that the video is being download (cache) someplace when you play it the very first time and when you aim to play it once again it will simply fill from where it was cached. Locating where the video is cached is our response.
The treatment we are about to share doesn't exist anywhere on the web, you are fortunate to be the first to learn this technique.
On Lite, Facebook normally shows the size (in megabytes) of the video you will see before you click it as shown in the picture 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 require the following apps, not needed however they will assist.
1.) ES File Explorer
2.) MX Video Player
All videos enjoyed on Facebook Lite are download in a folder on the phone storage. We suggest you watch a video on Lite before you continue, this will produce the folder we are about to show you.
In our own case, we utilize ES File Explorer. You can utilize any file manager 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 displayed 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 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 four different folders inside the "video" folder, in yours you may find more. However, it is essential to let you understand that each folder in the "video" folder represent each video you see on Facebook Lite. As you can see, the folders are named 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 step 4 contains just these two files. The "0000000000000000" file is the video we are searching for. All the 4 folders consists of the "0000000000000000" video file and each file represent various video in each of the folder. Each folder is each video you view on Facebook Lite.
6.) If you are utilizing ES, just click the "0000000000000000" file to open then choose video from the menu, pick 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 enjoy the cached Facebook Lite videos.
Please Keep in mind: The "0000000000000000" doesn't 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 players installed won't be able to fetch it when scanning the phone. It's a security step. You need to open it straight with a video player to be able to consider as a video.
Whenever you see a video on Facebook Lite, the video is cached (download) on the phone memory card. By following the steps above, you can rename the "00000000000000" which is the video file and enjoy it offline forever. You can even copy it to a separate folder to keep conserve. Such articles How To Save A Video From Facebook On Android from my thank you for visiting hope can help you.