🎬 Facebook Reels Downloader & Media Metadata Scraper

🏆 The most powerful Facebook Reels Downloader on the Apify platform — download Facebook Reels in up to 1920p resolution with full audio, extract the richest metadata available, and get permanent download links that never expire.

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🚀 Why This Facebook Reels Downloader?

Other Facebook Reels scrapers deliver low-quality silent videos with expiring links. This Facebook Reels Downloader is built different:

• 📺 Up to 1920p with Full Sound — Downloads the highest resolution video with audio merged perfectly
• 🔗 Permanent Download Links — Video, audio, and thumbnail links that never expire
• 🎵 Separate Audio Track — Get a dedicated high-quality audio file alongside the video
• 🖼️ Permanent Thumbnail — Thumbnail image hosted permanently, not an expiring Facebook link
• 🔬 Deepest Media Metadata — Container-level FFprobe analysis with codecs, frame rates, bitrates, and more
• 🏷️ Complete OpenGraph Data — Every og: and twitter: meta tag extracted from the page
• 🛡️ Never Fails — Automatic proxy fallback ensures downloads always succeed
• 🔒 Professional Logs — No internal module names or implementation details exposed

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⚡ Enable Key Value Store — What You Get

When you turn ON the Key Value Store toggle, this Facebook Reels Downloader upgrades your output dramatically:

❌ Without KV Store	✅ With KV Store
Raw Facebook CDN URLs that expire in 4–8 hours	🔗 Permanent Apify CDN links that never expire
Silent high-resolution video (no audio)	🔊 Merged MP4 with full audio at up to 1920p
No separate audio download	🎵 Dedicated M4A audio file with its own permanent link
Expiring Facebook thumbnail links	🖼️ Permanent thumbnail hosted on Apify CDN
No deep media analysis	🔬 FFprobe video & audio metadata (optional toggles)

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📊 Complete Output Data — Every Field Explained

📋 Core Video Information

This Facebook Reels Downloader extracts the following core fields for every single video:

🏷️ Field	📝 What It Contains
original_url	The Facebook Reel URL you submitted for processing
title	Full video title including reaction count, hashtags, and creator name
channel	Name of the Facebook page or user who uploaded the Reel
description	Complete video description including all hashtags
view_count	Total number of views at the time the Facebook Reels Downloader extracted the data
duration	Length of the video (e.g., "13" for 13 seconds, "5:40" for 5 minutes 40 seconds)
upload_date	The date the Reel was originally posted (format: YYYYMMDD)
id	Facebook's unique internal video identifier number
uploader	Creator's display name
uploader_id	Creator's unique Facebook user/page ID
webpage_url	The resolved mobile Facebook URL the video was extracted from
timestamp	Unix timestamp of when this Facebook Reels Downloader processed the video
extraction_time_seconds	How many seconds the full extraction pipeline took

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📺 Video Quality & Format Details

The Facebook Reels Downloader reports precise technical specifications about the delivered video:

🏷️ Field	📝 What It Contains
requested_resolution	The resolution you selected in the input settings
provided_resolution	The actual resolution the Facebook Reels Downloader delivered (closest match)
width	Horizontal pixel count of the video (e.g., 1080)
height	Vertical pixel count of the video (e.g., 1920)
resolution	Combined resolution string (e.g., "1080x1920")
aspect_ratio	Width-to-height ratio (e.g., 0.56 for vertical Reels, 1.78 for horizontal)
vbr	Video bitrate in kilobits per second — higher means better visual quality
abr	Audio bitrate in kilobits per second — higher means better sound quality
tbr	Total combined bitrate (video + audio)
vcodec	Video codec used by Facebook (e.g., "av01.0.08M.08" for AV1 encoding)
acodec	Audio codec used by Facebook (e.g., "mp4a.40.5" for HE-AAC)
ext	File extension/container format (e.g., "mp4")
format_id	Internal Facebook format identifiers for the selected video+audio streams
format_note	Human-readable format description (e.g., "DASH video+DASH audio")
video_type	MIME type of the video (e.g., "video/mp4")
filesize_bytes	Total file size of the final merged video in bytes (KV Store mode)

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🔗 Download Links (KV Store Mode)

When KV Store is enabled, this Facebook Reels Downloader provides three permanent download links:

🏷️ Field	📁 Format	📝 What It Contains
downloadable_video_link	.mp4	Permanent CDN link to the merged video file with full audio at your requested resolution
downloadable_audio_link	.m4a	Permanent CDN link to the separated high-quality audio track
thumbnail	.jpg	Permanent CDN link to the video thumbnail image

💡 All three links are hosted on Apify's CDN and never expire — unlike raw Facebook URLs that become invalid within hours.

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🔗 Raw Download URLs (Direct Mode — KV Store OFF)

When KV Store is off, this Facebook Reels Downloader provides raw CDN URLs and format information:

🏷️ Field	📝 What It Contains
download_urls	Array of all discovered Facebook CDN video URLs across multiple qualities and endpoints
total_download_urls	Total count of unique download URLs found (typically 7–12 per video)
download_details	Detailed array with each URL's format ID, resolution, codec, bitrate, protocol, and source engine
thumbnails	Array of all discovered thumbnail URLs in various resolutions
total_thumbnails	Total count of unique thumbnails found (typically 3–5 per video)
thumbnail	The highest quality thumbnail URL selected from the array

Each entry in download_details contains:

🏷️ Sub-Field	📝 What It Contains
url	Direct Facebook CDN download URL for this specific stream
format_id	Facebook's internal format identifier
quality	Quality label (e.g., "DASH video", "DASH audio", -2 for HD, -3 for SD)
width × height	Pixel dimensions of this specific stream
resolution	Combined resolution string
ext	File format (e.g., "mp4", "m4a")
vcodec	Video codec ("none" for audio-only streams)
acodec	Audio codec ("none" for video-only streams)
tbr / vbr / abr	Total / video / audio bitrate in kbps
protocol	Download protocol (e.g., "https")
source	Which extraction engine discovered this URL

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🏷️ OpenGraph & Twitter Card Meta Tags

The Facebook Reels Downloader extracts every meta tag from the Facebook page and provides them as a structured dictionary:

🏷️ Tag Category	📝 Fields Included
🌐 OpenGraph Core	og:type, og:title, og:description, og:url, og:locale
🖼️ OpenGraph Media	og:image, og:image:alt, og:video, og:video:url, og:video:secure_url, og:video:width, og:video:height, og:video:type
🐦 Twitter Card	twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description, twitter:image, twitter:image:alt, twitter:site, twitter:player, twitter:player:width, twitter:player:height
📱 App Links	al:android:app_name, al:android:package, al:android:url, al:ios:app_name, al:ios:app_store_id, al:ios:url, apple-itunes-app
🔧 Technical	viewport, referrer, theme-color, robots, google, description, color-scheme, application-title, bingbot
📊 Total Count	total_meta_tags — number of tags found (typically 19–37 per video)

📌 The all_meta_tags field sits at the top level of the JSON output, not nested inside other objects.

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🔬 Advanced Video Metadata (Optional — Enable KV Store First)

When you toggle ON 🎬 Advanced Video Metadata, the Facebook Reels Downloader provides deep container-level analysis:

🏷️ Field	📝 What It Contains	💡 Example
codec_name	Short codec identifier	"av1"
codec_long_name	Full human-readable codec name	"Alliance for Open Media AV1"
profile	Encoding profile used	"Main"
pix_fmt	Pixel format / color space	"yuv420p"
level	Codec complexity level	8
r_frame_rate	Raw frame rate	"30/1"
avg_frame_rate	Average frames per second	"30/1"
time_base	Internal timestamp resolution	"1/15360"
bit_rate	Exact video bitrate in bits per second	"853571"
max_bit_rate	Maximum bitrate if variable	null or value
nb_frames	Total number of video frames	"399"
display_aspect_ratio	Display aspect ratio if set	null or "9:16"
format_name	Container format identifier	"mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2"
duration	Precise duration to microsecond accuracy	"13.307007"
size	Exact file size in bytes	"1522507"

⚠️ This toggle requires Key Value Store to be enabled first.

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🔬 Advanced Audio Metadata (Optional — Enable KV Store First)

When you toggle ON 🎵 Advanced Audio Metadata, the Facebook Reels Downloader provides deep audio analysis:

🏷️ Field	📝 What It Contains	💡 Example
codec_name	Audio codec identifier	"aac"
codec_long_name	Full human-readable codec name	"AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)"
profile	Audio encoding profile	"HE-AAC"
sample_rate	Audio sampling frequency in Hz	"44100"
channels	Number of audio channels	2
channel_layout	Spatial audio arrangement	"stereo"
time_base	Internal timestamp resolution	"1/44100"
bit_rate	Exact audio bitrate in bits per second	"56210"
max_bit_rate	Maximum bitrate if variable	null or value
nb_frames	Total number of audio frames	"289"
format_name	Container format identifier	"mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2"
duration	Precise duration to microsecond accuracy	"13.307007"
size	Exact file size in bytes	"1522507"

⚠️ This toggle requires Key Value Store to be enabled first.

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🎯 Resolution Options

📺 Option	📝 Description
1920p	🏆 Maximum quality available
1280p	📺 Full HD alternative
1080p	⭐ Standard Full HD (default)
960p	📱 High quality for vertical Reels
720p	🎥 HD quality
540p / 480p / 360p	💨 Smaller file sizes
Best	🔥 Automatically selects the highest available

🧠 If your requested resolution isn't available, the Facebook Reels Downloader selects the closest match. It also searches OpenGraph meta tags for hidden high-resolution URLs that other scrapers miss entirely.

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💼 Use Cases

🎯 Use Case	📝 How This Facebook Reels Downloader Helps
📦 Content Archival	Save Facebook Reels permanently with the highest quality before they're deleted
📈 Social Media Analytics	Extract view counts, engagement data, and metadata at scale
✂️ Content Repurposing	Download high-quality video with audio for professional editing
🔍 Marketing Research	Analyze competitor content, hashtags, and engagement patterns
📡 Media Monitoring	Track viral content with detailed technical metadata
🤖 Automation Pipelines	Integrate with n8n, Make.com, Zapier using permanent download links
🏢 Brand Safety	Monitor brand mentions and content compliance
📚 Academic Research	Study social media trends with the richest metadata available

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❓ FAQ

🤔 Why is the resolution sometimes lower than requested? Facebook doesn't serve every resolution for every video. The Facebook Reels Downloader automatically falls back to the closest available quality.

🤔 Why do Advanced Metadata toggles require KV Store? FFprobe analyzes an actual video file on disk. Without KV Store, there's no downloaded file to analyze.

🤔 Do download links expire? With KV Store ON → Never ♾️. With KV Store OFF → Facebook CDN links expire in 4–8 hours ⏳.

🤔 Can I process multiple Reels? ✅ Yes! Add as many URLs as needed. The Facebook Reels Downloader processes them sequentially.

🤔 Why is the video silent without KV Store? Facebook serves high-resolution video and audio as separate streams. This Facebook Reels Downloader merges them automatically when KV Store is enabled.

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🏆 The most reliable, highest-quality, and feature-rich Facebook Reels Downloader on the Apify platform.