Facebook Video Transcript Generator

A Facebook transcript without the rewinding

Facebook is where a lot of local news, school announcements, small business updates and community events end up as video. When you need what was actually said, scrubbing back and forth to type it out is slow and easy to get wrong. Paste the link to a public Facebook video or reel here, and you get a written transcript you can copy, search and save.

Copying a Facebook video link

Facebook moves its menus around depending on where the video appears, so here are the common spots.

Facebook app:

1. Open the video or reel so it fills the screen.
2. Tap the "…" menu (or the Share button) and choose Copy link.
3. Come back to this page, long-press the box, and tap Paste.

facebook.com on a computer:

1. Click the "…" menu at the top right of the post and choose Copy link.
2. If you opened the video on its own page, you can also copy the address from the browser's address bar.

If Copy link doesn't appear, the post may not be shared publicly. That's also the most common reason a transcript fails.

Public videos only

The transcript generator sees Facebook the way a visitor who isn't logged in does. That means:

• Works: videos and reels on public Pages, and public posts from profiles.
• Doesn't work: private groups, friends-only posts, Messenger videos and stories that have expired.

If you manage a Page and the video is yours, make sure the post is public before you paste the link.

Turning the SRT into captions

Many people watch Facebook videos in their feed with the sound off. If you run a Page, captions help those viewers follow along. The SRT download gives you a ready-made caption file: numbered lines, each with a start and end time like 00:00:07,500 --> 00:00:10,100, followed by the words spoken in that window.

To use it on a video you posted:

1. Download the SRT from this page.
2. Rename it so it ends with the language code, for example spring-open-house.en_US.srt.
3. Open the video in Facebook's video editing options and upload the file in the captions or subtitles section.
4. Read through the captions once in the preview and correct any names or terms that came out wrong.

The same SRT file can be uploaded to YouTube Studio or imported into an editor like Premiere Pro, so one transcript covers every place you post the video.

Check names before you quote

Speech-to-text works from sound, so names of people, streets, businesses and local places are the words most likely to come out spelled wrong. Before you publish a quote from a Facebook video, compare those words against the Page name, the post's description or another reliable source. It takes a minute and saves you a correction later.

Reading instead of listening

Not every place is a good place to play a video out loud: an open office, a waiting room, a bus. A transcript lets you get through a public announcement or a short interview in silence, at your own reading speed. It also helps anyone who is deaf or hard of hearing, or who uses a screen reader, when the original video was posted without captions.

Quoting Facebook videos responsibly

A transcript makes it easy to quote someone accurately, which is the point. When you use a line from someone else's video in an article, a newsletter or a post, put it in quotation marks, say who said it, and link to the original video so readers can see the context. If you're reusing ideas from a video, write them up in your own words instead of republishing the transcript.

What it costs, nothing kept

Your first Facebook transcript is free, with no account. After that you sign up and buy credits: packs start at $5 for 30 transcripts and never expire, or Pro is $9 a month for 300. One transcript covers a video up to 5 minutes; longer videos use one more credit for each started 5 minutes, so a 12-minute video uses 3. A transcript that fails costs nothing. We don't keep a copy of the video or host it anywhere; the text is all that comes back to you.

ReelToScript is not affiliated with Facebook or Meta.