Tellscreen

How to give a Loom video to Claude or ChatGPT (November 2026)

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Claude and ChatGPT can't open a Loom link, so download the video from Loom and send the file through Tellscreen, which turns it into text and screenshots any AI can use.

A Loom link opens Loom's player, and an assistant reading the page gets the title and little else. Even with the file, Claude and the GPT models behind ChatGPT and Codex can't play video; only Gemini can. Here's what each assistant did with the same recordings.

Step 1: download the video from Loom

Open the video in Loom and use its Download option. Owners can always download; for someone else's video, the owner has to allow downloads. How to download your Loom videos, including all of them at once.

Step 2: turn it into something your AI can read

In the browser: open your Tellscreen library, drop the file in, and when it's ready press Copy prompt for your AI on the video page. Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or your coding agent.

From a terminal, or let your agent do it:

curl -fsS -T loom-video.mp4 "https://tellscreen.com/api/v1/convert?wait=110"

Either way you get a summary, every change asked for with the words said, where on screen and a screenshot link of that moment, and the full transcript with times. More on sending videos to Claude Code, Codex or Cursor.

Moving off Loom?

Tellscreen records your screen and camera in the browser and from a Mac and Windows app, shares a link the moment you stop, and writes the change list for every recording. It's free for 25 videos, and Pro is $8 a month against Loom's $18. See Tellscreen vs Loom.

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