For you, and for me so I can find it later... Have you ever tried to share a Facebook video outside of Facebook? Like, send someone a link in a message or email? It's not easy but it is possible. I guess Facebook want you to share inside of Facebook, but ... it's a bigger world than just them.
So here's what you do:
- Discover the Facebook video's number. When you're viewing the video on Facebook, click on the little down arrow at the upper right and you'll have the option to Embed Video. This gives you a string of HTML that looks like this:
<div id="fb-root"></div><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script><div class="fb-video" data-allowfullscreen="true" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/109918489208/videos/10153013265164209/"><div class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore"><blockquote cite="/109918489208/videos/10153013265164209/"><a href="/109918489208/videos/10153013265164209/"></a><p>Happening now!! Marina Del Rey is ready for NACs. Are you??</p>Posted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Coronado-15/109918489208">Coronado 15</a> on Thursday, May 21, 2015</blockquote></div></div>
Yeah, messy. Anyway, the video number is in there, as I've highlighted in red.
- Build the URL for the video like this:
http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?v=10153013265164209
That's it. You're welcome.
BTW, in order to view the video link recipients have to have access to it; so it either has to be public or they have to be signed into Facebook and be authorized to watch it.
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