Transcribe Facebook Videos Instantly

Facebook hosts more kinds of video than almost any other platform: page uploads, Reels, group posts, Live replays, and clips shared to a profile. Scrivi handles them the same way. Paste the link, and Scrivi locates the video, looks for a caption track, and returns the text.

When the video has captions, either auto-generated by Facebook or uploaded by the page, the transcript appears in seconds and is free on the free plan. When it has no caption track, Scrivi can transcribe the audio with speech-to-text. That path is part of the $2.99 Day Pass (24 hours) and the Pro plan, because real audio processing costs money per minute.

Be prepared for the second case. Reels and casual uploads on Facebook often ship without captions, and Live replays only get them if the page enabled captioning. Scrivi tells you up front when a video needs the paid path instead of returning an empty page.

Scrivi reads the video's public page URL. The video must be visible without logging in to Facebook, which rules out anything posted to a private group, a friends-only profile, or a restricted audience.

Reading beats rewatching whenever you need one specific statement. Search the transcript for a keyword, copy the exact quote, and export the whole text as PDF, .txt, or .md. One click generates an AI summary with key points, chapters, and topics, which is the fastest way to get the substance of a 45-minute Live without sitting through it.

Pro adds Ask AI for follow-up questions about the content, batch transcription of up to 10 links, collections to keep related videos together, and research reports that synthesize several transcripts into one document with themes and insights. Community managers tracking a topic across many pages, and researchers studying public discourse, tend to use those the most.

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Few dedicated tools accept a Facebook link. GetTranscribe does, across all major platforms, with a free trial that ends after two videos and a $9.99 monthly plan afterwards. DownSub is a subtitle downloader that supports Facebook, so it is a good free option when a caption track exists and useless when it does not. ScreenApp and WayinVideo list Facebook among their sources and transcribe the audio each time, which works for captionless videos but is slower and comes with per-video minute caps or daily credits.

Scrivi's trade-off is stated plainly: captioned Facebook videos are instant and free (20 a day on the free plan, with 3 AI summaries), and captionless ones need a Day Pass or Pro. In return one subscription covers Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and X, plus summaries, search, collections, and research reports. If you only ever transcribe uncaptioned Facebook videos and nothing else, a single-purpose speech-to-text tool may be cheaper; if Facebook is one source among several, Scrivi keeps them in one place.

Free: 20 caption transcriptions a day across all platforms, 3 AI summaries a day, PDF and text export, no credit card. Day Pass: $2.99 for 24 hours of Pro, including AI audio transcription for videos without captions. Pro: $9.99 a month or $59.99 a year, with unlimited fair-use transcription, AI audio transcription up to 60 minutes per video, Ask AI, batch, collections, and research reports. Lifetime: $79.99 once.

Transcripts stay in the spoken language rather than being forced into English. Saved transcripts are private to your account and can be deleted at any time.