Facebook download failing? Fixes that actually work

You paste the link, press the button, and nothing happens. Or the page thinks about it for a while and returns an error with no explanation. Or a file downloads and turns out to be 12KB of nothing.Almost all of these have mundane causes, and most are fixable in well under a minute. Below are the seven checks worth running in order, then what to switch to if the tool itself is the problem.The 7 fixes, in orderStart at the top. Each is faster than the one below it.Copy the link properly. This is by far the most common cause. Copying the address while a video is playing fullscreen, or grabbing a shortened share URL, gives you something the parser cannot read. Open the post itself, tap the three dots, and choose Copy link.Strip anything after the question mark. Facebook appends tracking parameters to shared links.