The invention discloses a multimedia data obtaining method and device belonging to the network technical field. The method comprises: in the login state of a user account, if pushing operation to multimedia data is detected, sending a pushing instruction at least comprising the identifier information of the multimedia data, the user account and the terminal identifier of a first terminal to a server; obtaining the download link of the multimedia data by the server according to the identifier information, and sending the download link to a second terminal after determining that the second terminal in addition to the first terminal logins the same user account according to the terminal identifier, and obtaining the multimedia data by the second terminal according to the download link. According to the invention, after the user executes the pushing operation at one terminal, the other terminal logining the same account can obtain corresponding multimedia data basing on the download link; other operation is unnecessarily additionally executed by the user at the second terminal, therefore the multimedia data obtaining method is convenient and fast and is simple in steps.