A Facebook Live can run for an hour, sometimes much longer. Q&As, product launches, sermons, town halls, training sessions, fitness classes. The replay is gold, but raw, you can't search inside it, can't quote it, can't reuse it without rewatching. This guide shows the fastest way to turn any saved Facebook Live replay into a clean, timestamped text transcript with a one-paragraph AI summary on top.

Why Live Replays Deserve a Transcript

Lives are the most information-dense format on Facebook. A 45-minute creator Q&A holds more product detail, customer questions and brand voice than 20 polished posts. A coaching session, a sermon, a webinar replay, these contain real value that's currently locked inside a video.

A transcript flips the asset from "watch once" to "reuse forever." You can search every line, copy any quote, paste a section into a blog post, translate the talk for a global audience, or generate a 5-bullet summary for the team that didn't make it live.

Time math: a careful human transcribes about 1 minute of audio in 4 to 5 minutes. A 60-minute Facebook Live takes 4 to 5 hours by hand. AI transcription does the same job in 5 to 10 minutes, with timestamps included.

Finding the Saved Replay URL

Lives are streamed in real time, but Facebook saves the broadcast as a regular video once the stream ends, unless the broadcaster deletes it. Here's how to grab the replay URL:

  1. Go to the broadcaster's page or profile.
  2. Click the Videos tab. Lives appear here alongside regular uploads, often labeled "LIVE" or "Premiere."
  3. Click the replay you want.
  4. Copy the URL from your browser address bar.

If the broadcaster has restricted the replay or deleted it, the URL won't return media. In that case, the only way to transcribe is to upload your own recording (if you screen-recorded it during the Live).

How to Transcribe the Replay Step by Step

1

Copy the replay URL

From the Facebook video page, copy the URL. It usually looks like facebook.com/<page>/videos/<ID> or facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=<ID>. Both are fine.

2

Paste into Dokitscript

Open dokitscript.com, paste the URL into the input on the home page. For a Live replay longer than 3 minutes, you'll need to be signed in. Free covers 3-minute clips, Starter goes to 8 minutes, Pro to 35, Business to 5 hours.

3

Set language and click Transcribe

If the Live is in a language other than English, set the language in the settings dropdown before transcribing. Hit Transcribe. Long replays take longer, expect roughly 1 minute of processing per 10 minutes of video, with some variance.

4

Summarize, search, export

Once the transcript appears, run Summary or Key Points for a top-line view. Use Ctrl+F to search the transcript for specific quotes or topics. Export TXT for raw text, DOCX for editing, SRT for subtitles. Saved to your History page if you're signed in.

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Handling Very Long Live Replays

Facebook allows Lives up to 8 hours. Most useful Lives sit between 30 minutes and 2 hours. Here's how to handle each tier:

Under 35 minutes

Pro plan ($14.99/month) covers this directly. Paste the URL, transcribe, done. Pro also gives unlimited monthly transcriptions (up to 1,300 minutes fair-use), which matters if you replay-process Lives weekly.

35 minutes to 5 hours

Business plan ($79.99/month) handles up to 5-hour clips and unlocks speaker detection (Speaker 1, Speaker 2, etc.). Worth it for panel discussions, multi-host Q&As and webinars where you need to attribute who said what.

Over 5 hours

Split the replay into segments using any video editor (or even by capturing chapters during the Live), then transcribe each chunk separately. Combine the resulting text files at the end. This sounds tedious but for a 3-hour Live it still beats the 12+ hours of manual transcription it would otherwise take.

Speaker Detection for Panels and Interviews

If your Live featured multiple guests, host plus 2 panelists for example, the Business plan automatically labels speakers in the transcript:

[00:00] Speaker 1: Welcome everyone, today we have two great guests...
[00:18] Speaker 2: Thanks so much, glad to be here.
[00:23] Speaker 3: Yes, really looking forward to the conversation.

You can rename "Speaker 1" to the actual person's name once and the label is applied everywhere they speak in the transcript. Helpful for writing podcast show notes, interview articles or panel recaps.

Repurposing a Live Replay Into Multiple Assets

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Blog post

One click on Blog Post turns the full Live into a structured article with headings and intro/outro. Edit the AI output, publish.

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Key points list

Key Points returns 5 to 8 bullets covering the main takeaways. Great for newsletters or recap emails.

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Short clips with captions

Export SRT, drop into your editor, pick the best 60-second moments and cut them into Reels or Shorts with auto subtitles already baked.

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Translated transcript

Translate the whole Live into 90+ languages for your international audience, in one click.

Frequently Asked Questions

No. The transcription engine works on completed videos. Wait for the Live broadcast to end and for the replay to be saved (usually automatic on Facebook), then transcribe the recording. Most pages keep replays on their timeline by default.
Some broadcasters delete the replay or set the original Live to vanish. If no public replay exists, the URL cannot be transcribed. If you recorded the Live yourself with a screen recorder, upload the MP4 file directly, this works for any video you can play locally.
Facebook allows Lives up to 8 hours. Dokitscript caps clip length by plan: Free 3 minutes, Starter 8 minutes, Pro 35 minutes, Business 5 hours. For very long replays, the Business plan is the best fit. Anything over 5 hours can be split into chunks.
Yes, on the Business plan. Speaker detection automatically labels each speaker (Speaker 1, Speaker 2, etc.) and you can rename them once for the whole transcript. Free, Starter and Pro return a single-speaker transcript without these labels.
Yes. After transcribing, click the Summary or Key Points button. The AI reads the full transcript and returns a condensed paragraph or a bulleted list of the main points covered, regardless of how long the Live ran.
Background music, room noise, audience chatter and overlapping speakers all reduce accuracy. Clean studio Lives transcribe near-perfectly. For noisy Lives, expect occasional misheard words. The transcript is still highly usable as a starting point and much faster than typing from scratch.
Yes, if you're signed in. Every transcript is saved to your History page where you can search across all past transcripts with Ctrl+F, re-export them in any format, or rerun AI features like Summary at any time.

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