Paste the link to a public Facebook video, Reel or finished live, and download SRT or VTT. Videos in private groups or limited to friends need the file, because only a signed-in member can open them.
How it works
Open the video, use Share and then Copy link, or copy the address from the browser bar while the video is open on its own page.
Public videos are fetched and transcribed. If the link is refused, download the video from your Page's content library and upload the file.
Open the transcript and download the subtitle file.
Public, private, live
A link is only as open as the post behind it:
Putting the SRT on the video
Facebook is one of the few social platforms that takes a subtitle file directly. When you edit the video, open the captions option and upload the SRT. The file name must end with a language and country code before the extension, like interview.en_US.srt or entrevista.es_LA.srt; a plain interview.srt is rejected. Rename the downloaded file before uploading. The full walk-through, with the codes people need most, is on subtitles for Facebook video.
Sample output
1 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:46,500 fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation conceived in in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition 2 00:00:46,500 --> 00:00:50,300 that all men are created equal. 3 00:00:50,300 --> 00:00:57,500 Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived 4 00:00:57,500 --> 00:01:01,620 and so dedicated, can long endure. 5 00:01:01,620 --> 00:01:07,920 We are met on a great battlefield of that war we have come to dedicate a portion of that field 6 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:14,240 as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that their nation might live 7 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,800 it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this
Real output, unedited: a public-domain LibriVox reading of the Gettysburg Address (2 min 41 s) transcribed here in October 2026. The repeated word and the missing capitals are what came back; you would fix those on the transcript before downloading.
Before you rely on it
Each cue is a phrase from the transcript with its start and end time. Most run a few seconds. A passage spoken without a pause can come out as one long cue of up to about half a minute, so split those in your editor if your platform wants two short lines at a time.
Cue times are taken from the recording itself, so the file lines up with the video or audio you uploaded. If you trim the start of the video afterwards, shift the cues by the same amount in your editor.
On public test recordings, about 7 words in 100 differed from the reference for clean English read speech, between 4 and 9 in 100 for Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, French and German, and about 21 in 100 for Hindi. Noisy rooms, music and crosstalk do worse. Method and every number: the benchmark.
Open the transcript, correct a misheard name or number on its line, and the SRT and VTT you download carry the correction with the timing unchanged.
You get the subtitle file. Fonts, colours, position and captions drawn into the picture are done in your video editor or player, which reads this file.
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per recording. The box on this page takes files up to 500 MB; larger ones continue on the upload page. 99+ languages, detected automatically.
Pricing
The preview is free. When the full transcript needs a pack, one-time packs are $4 for 500 minutes, $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes, $24 for 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire, which comes to about $0.29 to $0.48 per hour of audio.
| Recording | $4 or $8 pack | $12 pack | $24 pack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2-minute video | $0.02 | $0.01 | $0.01 |
| 25-minute live replay | $0.20 | $0.15 | $0.12 |
| 90-minute live event | $0.72 | $0.54 | $0.43 |
Figures are the share of a pack each recording uses. A button opens secure checkout for that pack. Every export format is included; full details on the pricing page.
FAQ
Copy the link to a public video, paste it into the box on this page, and download SRT or VTT from the transcript. For non-public videos, upload the video file instead.
Not from a link. Private-group and friends-only videos open only for signed-in members, so download the video and upload the file.
Yes. Facebook accepts SRT files when you edit a video, but the file name must include a language and country code, for example video.en_US.srt.
After it ends. Once the replay is posted, paste its link or upload the downloaded video.
99+ languages are detected automatically. Subtitles stay in the spoken language, and with credits on the account they can be translated into 35 languages from the download menu.
Every page in this set uses the same upload box and the same export. All subtitle pages
Free preview. SRT and VTT from the same job; packs from $4 when the full transcript needs one.