
Meta Media Downloader
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Meta Media Downloader
3 hours trial then $15.00/month - No credit card required now
Easily download Facebook and Instagram videos, images, reels, and stories with this powerful tool. Perfect for content creators, marketers, and social media managers, it ensures fast, high-quality media extraction from Meta platforms. Save and repurpose content effortlessly in just a few clicks!
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Created in Mar 2025
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Meta Media Downloader | Download Facebook & Instagram Videos, Reels & Images
Easily download Facebook and Instagram videos, images, reels, and stories with this powerful tool. Perfect for content creators, marketers, and social media managers, it ensures fast, high-quality media extraction from Meta platforms. Save and repurpose content effortlessly in just a few clicks!
🚀 Key Features
- Facebook Support: Download videos and images from Facebook posts, reels, and stories
- Instagram Support: Extract content from Instagram posts, reels, and stories
- Highest Quality Extraction: Always downloads the highest quality version available
- Video-Only Mode: Option to download only videos and skip images
- Multi-Image Support: Extracts all images from posts with multiple photos
- Flexible Configuration: Customize proxy settings, timeouts, and retry mechanisms
- Secure Storage: All media files are stored securely in Apify's key-value store
- Detailed Metadata: Preserves quality, type, and source information for each download
📋 Input Parameters
The Actor accepts the following input parameters:
Required Parameters
-
startUrls
(Array) - List of Facebook or Instagram URLs to process. Examples:1[ 2 { "url": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1218203106348274" }, 3 { "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/CS-D8V2niR-/" } 4]
-
proxyConfiguration
(Object) - Configure proxy settings to avoid rate limiting and improve reliability- Recommended: Enable Apify Proxy for optimal performance
- Supports custom proxy configuration
Optional Parameters
videoOnly
(Boolean) - When true, only downloads videos and skips images. Default:true
downloadTimeoutSecs
(Integer) - Timeout in seconds for media downloads. Increase this if downloading large files. Default:500
maxRequestRetries
(Integer) - Number of retry attempts for failed requests. Default:15
📊 Output
For each successfully processed URL, the Actor saves:
1{ 2 "sourceUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1218203106348274", 3 "quality": "HD", 4 "type": "mp4", 5 "timestamp": "2025-03-17T05:38:27.422Z", 6 "filename": "8556c95c-5caf-40a3-8d34-82f37b7562c9.mp4", 7 "fileUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/[store-id]/records/8556c95c-5caf-40a3-8d34-82f37b7562c9", 8 "isImage": false 9}
sourceUrl
: Original Facebook or Instagram URLquality
: Quality level of the downloaded media (e.g., "HD", "SD", "Original")type
: File format of the media (e.g., "mp4" for video, "image" for photos)timestamp
: ISO timestamp of when the media was downloadedfilename
: Unique identifier for the file with appropriate extensionfileUrl
: Direct URL to download the media file from Apify's storageisImage
: Boolean indicating whether the media is an image or video
🔧 Usage
- Create a new task for this Actor on the Apify platform
- Configure the input parameters:
- Add Facebook and Instagram URLs to the
startUrls
array - Set
videoOnly
to true if you only want videos - Adjust performance settings if needed
- Set up proxy configuration (required)
- Add Facebook and Instagram URLs to the
- Run the Actor and wait for the results
- Access your downloaded media files through the provided URLs in the dataset
💡 Best Practices
- Proxy Usage: Always configure proxy settings as it's required for reliable operation
- Video-Only Mode: Use
videoOnly: true
when you specifically need video content - Timeout Settings: Adjust
downloadTimeoutSecs
based on expected file sizes - Retries: Keep
maxRequestRetries
high enough to handle temporary failures - URL Format: Ensure URLs are direct links to posts, reels, or stories
📚 How It Works
- The Actor processes each URL in the
startUrls
array - It determines whether the URL is from Facebook or Instagram
- For Facebook:
- Extracts the highest quality video if available
- If no video is found and
videoOnly
is false, extracts all images
- For Instagram:
- Downloads the media content (video or image)
- All media files are stored in Apify's key-value store
- Detailed metadata is saved to the dataset