{"id":49159,"date":"2024-02-16T15:05:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T04:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=49159"},"modified":"2024-02-16T15:05:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T04:05:03","slug":"workaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=49159","title":{"rendered":"Workaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most alternative social media sites will not allow links to facebook videos. The reason being most of us here left facebook for a reason and that is why they don&#8217;t allow links to facebook videos.<\/p>\n<p>If however, you find a video you think should be spread far and wide on alternative social media, you have a couple of options:<\/p>\n<p>1. Copy the link then Paste it into the snapsave app and download it, then repost it here.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/snapsave.app\/\">https:\/\/snapsave.app\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. The snapsave app doesn&#8217;t always work for facebook videos, but there is another alternative and you use it in the same manner.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fdown.net\/\">https:\/\/fdown.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If either of these Apps don&#8217;t work, it is probably because the original video&#8217;s Privacy Settings don&#8217;t allow it to be downloaded and if so there isn&#8217;t much you can do about it except try to find the same video posted on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>It is pointless to try to download anything but short video clips lasting less than 30 minutes long ideally, because anything much longer than that won&#8217;t upload on most alternative social media networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most alternative social media sites will not allow links to facebook videos. The reason being most of us here left facebook for a reason and that is why they don&#8217;t allow links to facebook videos. If however, you find a video you think should be spread far and wide on alternative social media, you have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=49159\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Workaround&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49160,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49159\/revisions\/49160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}