# Videosays

> Videosays turns public video links into readable transcripts and timestamped subtitles for people and AI agents.

Website: https://videosays.com/
Chinese website: https://videosays.cn/
AI agent entry: https://videosays.com/ai-agents
Chinese AI agent entry: https://videosays.cn/ai-agents
Documentation: https://videosays.com/docs
Public Skill: https://videosays.com/SKILL.md
Full product reference: https://videosays.com/llms-full.txt
CLI package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/videosays
Skill repository: https://github.com/xwchris/videosays-agent-tools
API origin: https://api.videosays.com

## What Videosays Does

- Accepts supported, publicly accessible video URLs.
- Returns plain transcript text and timestamped segments.
- Exports TXT, SRT, and VTT when the task contains timeline segments.
- Keeps useful source context such as platform, title, creator, duration, and task state.
- Supports asynchronous processing for long-running tasks.
- Works through the web app, Videosays Skill, CLI, and REST API.

Supported platforms include Douyin, TikTok, YouTube, Bilibili, Xiaohongshu, Kuaishou, Instagram Reels, X/Twitter video posts, and public WeChat Channels share links.

## Recommended AI Agent Usage

Ask an agent to read the public Skill and complete the workflow:

```text
Read https://videosays.com/SKILL.md, install the Videosays Skill if your environment supports skills, and help me transcribe this public video link.
```

The Skill handles authentication, idempotent task submission, same-account duplicate reuse, status polling, result retrieval, insufficient-credit errors, and output format selection. Reuse the same `--submission-id` when retrying an ambiguous submission; use `--force-new` only when a fresh transcription is intentional.

## Main Pages

- Video to text: https://videosays.com/short-video-to-text
- Subtitle extractor: https://videosays.com/short-video-subtitle-extractor
- Transcription API: https://videosays.com/short-video-api
- Agent Skill: https://videosays.com/agent-skill-short-video-text
- Douyin: https://videosays.cn/douyin-video-to-text
- TikTok: https://videosays.com/tiktok-video-to-text
- YouTube: https://videosays.com/youtube-video-to-text
- WeChat Channels: https://videosays.com/wechat-channels-video-to-text
- Bilibili: https://videosays.com/bilibili-subtitle-extractor
- Xiaohongshu: https://videosays.cn/xiaohongshu-subtitle-extractor
- Kuaishou: https://videosays.com/kuaishou-video-to-text
- Instagram: https://videosays.com/instagram-video-to-text
- X/Twitter: https://videosays.com/twitter-video-to-text

## Guides

- How to extract short video text: https://videosays.com/guides/how-to-extract-short-video-text

English pages use `videosays.com`. Chinese equivalents use the same path on `videosays.cn` when that localized page exists, for example:

- https://videosays.com/youtube-video-to-text
- https://videosays.cn/youtube-video-to-text

## Usage Boundaries

- Only public, accessible links can be processed.
- Videosays transcribes available original captions or spoken media; it does not claim to extract platform comments, danmaku, quote-post chains, or visual details.
- Visual actions, overlays, transitions, and factual claims should be checked against the original video.
- Transcription quality depends on source availability and audio quality.

For the canonical executable agent workflow, read https://videosays.com/SKILL.md. For product capabilities, platform pages, formats, and integration context, read https://videosays.com/llms-full.txt.