Get an X video transcript

Paste the URL of a video post on X above and the spoken audio comes back as timestamped text. X's auto-generated captions have rolled out unevenly — coverage differs between the native app, embeds, and older posts, and there's no way to tell from the outside whether a given post has one. Transcribing the audio removes the guesswork.

The other thing worth knowing about X specifically: the same clip is frequently re-uploaded by unrelated accounts with no attribution, and audio quality varies between copies. If you're citing something, transcribe the copy you intend to link to rather than assuming two posts of "the same" clip produce the same text — compression and re-encoding between reposts genuinely change what a transcriber hears.

• No dependence on whether that particular post happened to get auto-captions.
• Short clips dominate on X, so most transcripts come back in seconds.
• Timestamped segments, so a quote can be cited to the moment in the clip it came from.
• JSON export if you're collecting posts for analysis rather than reading them one at a time.

What you're doing with the transcript

The export format and the workflow both depend on what the text is for. These go into detail for X specifically:

• Turn an X (Twitter) video into a thread or blog post

  Turning one video into a blog post, thread, or newsletter section without rewriting it from memory.

• Cite and verify an X (Twitter) video with a transcript

  Getting a timestamped, quotable record of a recording for citation or analysis.

• Caption a video posted on X (Twitter)

  Making video usable for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers and for screen-reader users.

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