Extract the Subtitles From Any Video

Most online videos already carry their words in a caption track: the text behind the CC button. Extracting subtitles means reading that track and handing it to you as text. Scrivi does that from the link alone, in the browser, so there is nothing to download and nothing to install.

Copy the public link of the video, paste it into Scrivi, and click Transcribe. Scrivi detects the platform, finds the caption track, and shows the full text in seconds. Because it reads text that already exists instead of listening to the audio, a long talk comes back about as fast as a short clip.

On the free plan this covers 20 captioned videos a day across all supported platforms, with no credit card. You can read the text in full and copy it with one click.

Be clear about the output before you start. Scrivi gives you the words of the caption track as continuous, readable text in the language it was written in. It is built for reading, quoting, searching, and pasting into a document.

It is not a subtitle file tool. Scrivi does not export .srt or .vtt files and does not show timestamps next to the lines. If you need a timed subtitle file to load back into a video editor, a dedicated subtitle downloader is the better fit. If you need the words themselves, Scrivi is faster and cleaner, because there is no timing clutter or broken line breaks to tidy up.

A missing caption track is the point where most subtitle extractors give up. There is simply nothing to extract. Scrivi offers a second path: AI audio transcription, which listens to the spoken audio and writes the text from scratch.

That path is part of the $2.99 Day Pass (24 hours of Pro) and the Pro plan, because real speech-to-text costs money per minute of audio. It handles videos up to 3 hours long. The free plan stays captions-only, and Scrivi tells you up front when a video needs the paid path instead of returning an empty page.

How often a caption track exists depends a lot on where the video lives. A quick guide so you know what to expect.

Facebook is the platform people ask about most, because the site itself offers no way to copy captions. Open the video, use the Share menu or the address bar to copy its link, and paste it into Scrivi. Short fb.watch links resolve to the full video automatically.

The video must be visible without logging in. Posts in private groups, friends-only posts, and Stories cannot be read. If the page enabled captions, you get the text in seconds on the free plan; if not, the Day Pass or Pro transcribes the audio instead.

People search for a subtitle extractor for two different jobs. The first is reading: you want to know what was said, quote a line, translate it, or paste it into notes. The second is editing: you want a timed subtitle file to load back into a video editor or a player. Scrivi is built for the first job.

For reading, a clean text is better than a subtitle file. Raw .srt files repeat timestamps every two lines, break sentences in odd places, and need cleanup before anyone can use them. Scrivi hands you the words as flowing paragraphs, so you can skim, search, and copy straight away.

For editing, you need the timing, and Scrivi does not provide it. Pick a subtitle downloader for that, and use Scrivi when the goal is the content itself, a summary of it, or a report across several videos.

Once the subtitles are text, you can do more with them than read. One click generates an AI summary with a short overview, key points, chapters, and topics, and the free plan includes 3 summaries a day. Search the text with Ctrl+F to find the one sentence you came for.

Paid plans add exports, Ask AI for follow-up questions about the content, batch extraction of up to 10 links at once, collections to keep related videos together, and research reports that combine 2 to 5 transcripts into one document. Transcripts stay in the spoken language, and the summary language can be set in Settings.