Shared posts trip up a lot of people trying to download a Facebook video, because the link you're looking at often isn't the original video's link — it's a friend's or Page's repost of it, wrapped in an extra layer. The good news: it still works, you just need to grab the link from the right spot.

Why Shared Posts Are Slightly Different

When someone shares a video, Facebook shows it inside a new post with their own caption on top, but the underlying video is still the same file from the original source. Most of the time, the share link you copy from that reshared post points straight to the same playable video, and FacebookReelDown handles it exactly like any other link. Occasionally, though, a share wraps the video inside a link preview rather than an embedded player, and that requires opening the original post instead.

How to Download From a Shared Post

  1. Open the shared post and check whether the video plays directly inside it (tap it — if it starts playing in place, you're set).
  2. If it plays inline, tap the three-dot menu on that video and choose Copy Link, same as usual.
  3. If it doesn't play inline and instead shows a thumbnail linking out, tap through to the original post first.
  4. Copy the link from the original video itself.
  5. Paste it into FacebookReelDown and download as normal.

Tip: On mobile, tapping directly on the video thumbnail (rather than the post text or caption) is the fastest way to tell whether it's embedded or just a link-out.

Shared Reels Work the Same Way

Reels shared to someone's Timeline or into a group follow an identical pattern — the video is a reshare, but the underlying Reel is unchanged, and copying its link works the same as pulling the link from the original creator's post.

When the Original Video Has Been Deleted

If the person who originally posted the video has since removed it, the shared post's video will stop working for everyone, including any downloader — there's nothing left on Facebook's servers to fetch. This is one of the few cases where a downloader genuinely can't help, since the file itself no longer exists publicly.

Public Visibility Still Applies

The same public/private rule applies to shared posts as to original ones: if the original video was public, a reshare of it stays downloadable; if it was private or restricted, sharing it doesn't make it publicly fetchable. For more on that boundary, see can you download private Facebook videos.

Bottom Line

A shared post's video is still the same file underneath — find the version that actually plays inline, copy its link, and FacebookReelDown handles the rest exactly like it would for any direct post.

Shared posts inside Groups add their own wrinkle — see Facebook Group video downloading for that specific case.