How to Download Facebook Live Videos

Most businesses, once they’ve published a Facebook Live video, think that’s the end of the story.

But it shouldn’t be.

In fact, repurposing your Facebook Live videos can be a really powerful way to drive more traffic to your site – and can widen the reach and impact of your video content.

We’re going to cover ways to repurpose your content in a later blog post – but this article covers the first step: how to download Facebook Live videos.

Here’s how:

1. Go to your Page on a Desktop / Laptop browser

Get Facebook loaded up in a desktop browser (not your mobile app), and navigate to your Page.

2. Click on: Publishing Tools and then Video Library

This will open up a list of all the video content you’ve posted on the page, along with an icon to show which of the videos were originally posted as Live content.

3. Hover over the video post you want to download

Hovering over the video will open up the “edit” icon to the top right of the video title.

4. Click on edit video

Not much more to say about this one. Go and click it.

5. Click on the Settings Cog

As above. Just get clicking.

6. Download SD (Standard Definition)

Congrats – you’ve now downloaded an .mp4 copy of your Facebook Live video.

See? Dead easy.

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