How to Share Facebook Videos With People Not on Facebook
You can upload videos in your Facebook profile and share that video with your Facebook friends quite easily. But this is not the case when you want to share the same video with people not on Facebook. This is because Facebook does not allows an “Outsider” to view your photo albums or videos.
Consider a scenario, you have some video clips in your computer and you want to share them with your online friends. In that case, it would be better to choose YouTube or other video sharing sites because these sites lets anyone view your uploaded video. The viewers do not necessarily have to create an account with the site to watch the video clipping.
Sharing videos from Facebook is problematic due to the following two reasons:
1. Facebook does not provides any embed code for your uploaded video. You can’t embed a Facebook video in your blog or website (legally).
2. Facebook does not provide a publicly accessible URL of a video.
Share Facebook Videos With people Not on Facebook
Whenever you come across an interesting video on Facebook and want to share it, click the video link to go to the video page.
The URL will be www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=XXX ( XXX is the Video ID).
Now, pastewww.facebook.com/v/XXX in the browser address bar and the SWF video file will load in the browser.
To share the video with anyone who does not have a Facebook account, all you have to do is email him the modified link – www.facebook.com/v/XXX
Embed Facebook Videos in a Webpage
To embed a Facebook video in your website, blog posts or in any webpage simply copy the Video ID and replace with XXX in the following code:
<param name=”allowfullscreen” value=”true” />
<param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always” />
<param name=”movie” value=”http://www.facebook.com/v/xxx” />
<embed src=”http://www.facebook.com/v/xxx” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash”
allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”400″ height=”224″>
</embed>
</object>
As an illustration, I embedded the following video which was originally uploaded by Kevin Rose on Facebook. You don’t need a Facebook account to watch the following video:
Download Videos From Facebook
If you want to quickly download videos from Facebook, try Facebook video downloader add-on for Firefox. This extension adds a “Download Video” link right next to all videos on Facebook. You can also use the “Convert Video” link to convert the video in preferred formats and then download it in your computer.
Do check out how to share Facebook photo albums with people not on Facebook
I can not see any video
Video unavailable
@tesla: Which browser are you using ?
I use firefoks and I tried to see on i explorer but I couldn’t see
I tried http://www.facebook.com/v/videoid (I used the actual ID #). When I pasted the address in the addressbar, I got a page saying that I had to login to Facebook… now what?
@Don: This should not be the case, did you copied the URL correctly ?
Thank you. Worked perfectly. Some of the previous commenters may need to edit the privacy settings on the particular videos they’re trying to share. If the privacy settings for a video aren’t set so that “Everyone” can view it, the person you send the link to gets a login page instead of the video (because you’ve told Facebook to only share with certain people like “Friends” or “Friends of Friends.”
@Jason: I am glad the tutorial was useful. Thanks for your comment.
@Amit: I set it to be viewable to “Everyone” but the link still asks me to login. What’s the problem?
Both the share and embed tricks shared above are pretty useful. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Mayur, but just winder why Facebook does not allow users to embed videos in their blogs ? Almost every other video hosting website does
Is there a way to keep the video private, but allow a few Facebook users to see it, whom are not my ‘friends’?