You can download your Facebook live videos to your computer after the stream has ended, if you have not deleted the video.
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Facebook video to action items in English
Facebook video to action items in English: send the file and get the text with the timecodes. One file may be up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro.
3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps
In short
What the Facebook stores is what the engine needs. The English speech becomes the table of action items in the sections Summary, Decisions, Action items; one file may be up to 30 minutes, and 3 files a day are free.
How to get the file and turn it into action items
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Find the Live tab
On a Page the live broadcasts are in the Videos tab, and on the web they are in the Live tab
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Attach the recording
The widget takes the file of the Facebook video as it is and marks the speech as English, so the engine does not have to guess what it is about.
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Ask for the table of action items
The text of the Facebook video is given to the instruction of the table of action items, and the answer is written in the sections Summary, Decisions, Action items, one after another.
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Tell the engine what it hears
The engine reads 99+ languages; this Facebook video is in English, so the language of the widget is set to English for the table of action items.
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Check the file before the upload
A live video can be downloaded one by one from a profile, from a Page or from Meta Business Suite
What comes back from the engine
- TXT
One segment per line, the way a person wrote it down. It is the format to paste into a ticket, a chat or a document.
- TXT, CSV
The start and the end time of every segment, and the speakers named separately when you ask for it.
- SRT, VTT
SRT and VTT with the time of every line, so the recording can carry its own subtitles.
- Markdown, DOCX
The transcript is edited through the API and exported as Markdown for a wiki, or as DOCX for a review.
What Facebook keeps, and what it says about it
A live video can be downloaded one by one from a profile, from a Page or from Meta Business Suite.
A new live broadcast can be replayed, downloaded or shared for 30 days, and after the notice about the old ones you have 90 days to take them.
up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro
$0: 3 files a day, up to 30 minutes per file, no card
$10 a month when you pay yearly ($120 a year), or $20 a month
The case
What the recording does not give you
You can download your Facebook live videos to your computer after the stream has ended, if you have not deleted the video. the Facebook is only the place where the recording waits; the text and the table of action items are made by the engine, in English.
Tips
Read the sections of the table of action items before you send it on.
A recording of the Facebook video in English is read as English.
The file of the Facebook video stays on your own disk.
Questions about Facebook video and action items
What does the Facebook say about the Facebook video?
You can download your Facebook live videos to your computer after the stream has ended, if you have not deleted the video. The engine reads the English speech of the Facebook video and writes the table of action items from that text.
Which problems can come with the Facebook video?
A new live broadcast can be replayed, downloaded or shared for 30 days, and after the notice about the old ones you have 90 days to take them. The engine does not change the file of the Facebook video; it reads it as it is and writes the table of action items.
How is the table of action items built from the Facebook video?
The engine reads the English speech and the instruction writes the table of action items in the sections Summary, Decisions, Action items; every line comes from the transcript of the Facebook video.
Is there a limit to the length of the Facebook video?
One file of the Facebook video may be up to 30 minutes on the free plan; the free plan gives 3 files a day.
Is a link enough for the Facebook video?
Bring the file of the Facebook video to your own disk and upload it here; the engine returns the table of action items with the time of every line.
Related pages
- The same task on facebook video to text sales call summary ruThe same task on another recording, with the same steps and the same sections.
- Meeting to action itemsThe page of the task: the instruction that is written for it and an example of the answer.
- Transcribe audio to textWhat the service does with a file: the formats of the export, the limits and the plans.
- Facebook video to textWhere Facebook keeps the file, what it holds and what the engine does with it.
Sources
- WFacebook help: save your live video to your computer (read 2026-10-24)www.facebook.com · checked
- AMeta newsroom: the storage policy of the live videos (read 2026-10-24)about.fb.com · checked
- TTranscription service page (read 2026-10-25)transcrib.si · checked
- TPricing page (read 2026-10-25)transcrib.si · checked
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Speakers by name, a time on every line, export to TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV and Markdown.
3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps