Which Facebook Videos Can Be Saved?
What matters is the audience the poster picked. A video shared as Public — on a Page, a public profile or a public group — can be opened by anyone with the link, and that is exactly what the downloader relies on.
Posts limited to Friends, videos inside private groups and anything in Messenger are only visible to signed-in members. The web tool doesn't use your Facebook account, so it can't see them. The desktop app can, because it works with your own logged-in session.
- If a link opens a login wall in a private browser window, it isn't public.
- Removed or region-restricted videos can't be fetched.
- Please only save videos you have the right to keep, and don't re-upload other people's work.




