BuzzFeed's video output includes the iconic top-down recipe videos (under the Tasty brand), short comedy, social experiments, and product reviews. Many of these videos are practical references — saved recipes you cook from, tutorial clips you reference repeatedly. BuzzFeed offers no download button on its player. Tasty's app saves recipes inside the app, not as files.
This guide covers how to save BuzzFeed and Tasty videos as MP4 files for offline use.

The fast version

  1. Open the BuzzFeed article or Tasty recipe page with the video.
  2. Copy the URL.
  3. Open SaveFast.cc, paste, click Download.
  4. Pick MP4 quality.

Downloading BuzzFeed videos

  1. Open the BuzzFeed article. URLs look like buzzfeed.com/author/article-title.
  2. Copy the article URL.
  3. Go to savefast.cc, paste, click Download.
  4. Pick MP4.
  5. File saves to Downloads.

Most BuzzFeed videos are 480p-1080p, with file sizes typically 15-40 MB for a 2-3 minute video.

Downloading Tasty recipe videos

Tasty is BuzzFeed's recipe brand. Videos are usually short (30-90 seconds), top-down food prep with text overlays. To save:

  1. Open the recipe on tasty.co/recipe/recipe-name or the embedded Tasty video on a BuzzFeed article.
  2. Copy the URL.
  3. Go to savefast.cc, paste, Download.
  4. Pick MP4.

Tasty videos are vertical or square in many cases, ideal for phone viewing while cooking.
Pro tip for cooking: download the recipe video at 720p (smaller file), put your phone on a kitchen stand, and you have an instant cookbook that doesn't need internet while you cook. Tasty has thousands of these recipes — building a library of your favorites is genuinely useful.

Downloading on Mobile

Same flow in Safari (iPhone) or Chrome (Android). The Tasty mobile app's share menu also works for getting clean URLs.

Quality options

BuzzFeed and Tasty videos are encoded for social sharing — moderate compression, multiple aspect ratios depending on the platform they were made for.
Available tiers:

  • 480p / 720p / 1080p MP4 — most videos.
  • Vertical / square / horizontal aspect ratios — Tasty especially has versions in multiple ratios.
  • MP3 audio — useful for voiceover-narrated content; for silent Tasty videos with only background music, less useful.

Audio extraction

Most Tasty recipe videos have no spoken voiceover — just music and text overlays. For those, MP3 isn't very useful.
BuzzFeed's other video formats (interviews, longer articles with videos) often have meaningful audio. The MP3 option extracts that cleanly.

What about BuzzFeed News content?

BuzzFeed News (the news division) was shut down in 2023, but the archive remains accessible. Video content from BuzzFeed News articles is downloadable through the same flow.

Common issues

"Video not found." The article was removed, or the video was deleted. Rare on BuzzFeed since most content stays up indefinitely.
"Embedded from YouTube" — won't download via article URL. Some BuzzFeed articles embed YouTube videos rather than hosting natively. Find the YouTube link and use our YouTube guide instead.
Video downloads but audio is just music. That's the source — many Tasty videos have only background music, no voiceover.

Privacy and use

Downloads are invisible to BuzzFeed's analytics.
For reuse: BuzzFeed and Tasty content is widely shared on social media. Personal use is fine. For redistribution (especially recipes — you can recreate the recipe yourself, but reposting Tasty's video unedited to your own social media is a copyright issue).
Your own content (if you've ever appeared in a BuzzFeed video) doesn't give you rights — BuzzFeed owns the production.

Frequently asked questions

Is downloading Tasty recipe videos legal?
For personal use, generally yes — keeping a recipe video to cook from is normal. For redistribution, follow copyright.
Can I use Tasty videos in my own cooking blog/social media?
No, not without permission. The recipes themselves (instructions) aren't copyrightable, but Tasty's specific video production is.
Why are some Tasty videos vertical and others horizontal?
Tasty produces multiple versions of each recipe for different platforms — Instagram (square/vertical), YouTube (horizontal), TikTok (vertical). When you download, you get whichever version is on the page you copied from.
Can I download BuzzFeed Quiz content?
Quizzes aren't video — they're interactive web content. Not downloadable as files.

Beyond BuzzFeed

For Mashable, recipe video platforms, and 50+ other sites, the same workflow applies. Full list on SaveFast.cc.