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I am using Google Chrome to download my own Facebook’s Look Back video.

• Open link facebook.com/lookback.
• Press Ctrl + Shift + J (Windows) or Cmd + Opt + J (Mac) to open the console.
• Copy the code from below and paste into console then press enter.

  var xmlhttp;
  if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
      xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
  } else {
      xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  }
  xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
  if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4 && xmlhttp.status == 200) {
          ss = xmlhttp.responseText.split('[["params","')[1].split('"],["width","960"]')[0];
          var x = ss;
          var r = /\\u([\d\w]{4})/gi;
          x = x.replace(r, function (match, grp) {return String.fromCharCode(parseInt(grp, 16)); });
          x = unescape(x);
          console.log(JSON.parse(x).video_data[0].hd_src);
      }
  }
  xmlhttp.open("GET", "/lookback", true);
  xmlhttp.send();

• Wait for a few seconds and it will gives you the video link for download.
• Right click on the link (as shown in the step 2 screenshot) and choose Save Link As.
• The video will be saved in a mp4 format.

Check out the screenshots below, if you are unsure.

Credits to Akshat Mittal‘s Simple JS Script to get Video URL from Facebook’s Look Back.

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