fbvid.sh

a simple Bash script to Download public Facebook Videos

how to use:

• right click on the video and copy the video url
• run the script as:
  $ bash fbvid.sh <copied_video_url>

Commands :

• curl : to download the HTML
• grep : to scrap the page
• wget : to Download the video File

Comments:

• testing : I have not done that much testing that needed.
• forking : Fork and improve the script if you want
• purpose : Educational

Example

$ `bash fbvid.sh` https://www.facebook.com/NoCopyrightSounds/videos/668942420602536/
[Downloading Page...]
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 1302k    0 1302k    0     0   196k      0 --:--:--  0:00:06 --:--:--  270k
[Extracting File Name...][Extracting Link...]
[Start Downloading...]
--2020-04-12 10:38:21--  https://video.fccu11-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t42.9040-2/91150755_276358663357117_4925898511473442816_n.mp4?_nc_cat=103&_nc_sid=985c63&efg=eyJybHIiOjUwMiwicmxhIjo1MTIsInZlbmNvZGVfdGFnIjoic3ZlX3NkIn0%3D&_nc_ohc=XjkCcqGj95IAX-WbGu3&rl=502&vabr=279&_nc_ht=video.fccu11-1.fna&oh=a5b09a856c0b31a6d90e62555a8670ee&oe=5E92C4D9
Resolving video.fccu11-1.fna.fbcdn.net (video.fccu11-1.fna.fbcdn.net)...<br>2405:200:1617:2885:face:b00c:0:358e, 49.44.180.146
Connecting to video.fccu11-1.fna.fbcdn.net (video.fccu11-1.fna.fbcdn.net)|<br>2405:200:1617:2885:face:b00c:0:358e|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 531309 (519K) [video/mp4]
Saving to: ‘NCS - Rival x Egzod - Live A Lie (ft. Andreas Stone) | Facebook.mp4’

NCS - Rival x Egzod 100%[===================>] 518.86K   794KB/s    in 0.7s    

2020-04-12 10:38:23 (794 KB/s) - ‘NCS - Rival x Egzod - Live A Lie (ft. Andreas Stone) | Facebook.mp4’ saved [531309/531309]