Get the transcript of a Facebook video

A recorded live, a page video, a Reel — paste the address and read what was said.

Yes — paste a public Facebook video or Reel URL and WhoScribe fetches the audio and transcribes it. Recorded live videos work once they are saved to the page. The text is timestamped and exportable; your first one needs no account, and every file shows its first 15 minutes free.

  • Page videos, Reels and saved live broadcasts
  • The post must be public — a login-walled video cannot be fetched
  • Long recordings are fine; a broadcast is not too long

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No sign-up needed — 1 free transcript a day. A free account gives you 3 a day and keeps them.

From the link to the text

From a Facebook link to text

  1. Copy the video address

    Open the video on its own page and copy the address from the browser. Links copied from inside the feed sometimes point at the post rather than the video.

  2. Paste it above

    We fetch the audio track. Nothing is downloaded to your device.

  3. Name the speakers

    A recorded panel or interview has several voices; turn on speaker recognition and rename them once.

  4. Export the record

    DOCX or PDF for circulating what was said, SRT or VTT for captions.

Recorded live videos are the common case

Most Facebook links people bring here are broadcasts that ended — a talk, a briefing, a service — sitting on a page as an hour or two of video that nobody wants to watch twice. That is exactly what a transcript is for: the searchable version of something you already sat through. Length is not a problem; a long recording just takes longer to come back.

FAQ

Questions before you upload

Transcribe a file

Does a live video work?

Once it has finished and been saved to the page, yes. A broadcast still running cannot be fetched — there is no complete file yet.

Why does my link say it is not public?

The video is limited to friends, to a group, or the post was deleted. Anything that asks a visitor to log in is out of reach for us.

Is there a length limit?

The plan sets how much of each file is transcribed and how much you read; the limits are on the pricing page. A long video is not rejected for being long.

Can I get it as a document?

Yes — DOCX and PDF are export formats, alongside plain text and subtitle files.

Somewhere else?

Paste the address and we fetch the audio. The transcript is the same wherever it came from.

YouTube transcripts

Start with one file

No account, no card. See the transcript before you decide anything.