get-subtitles

returns a zip archive with subtitles for a movie



usage

curl -G --fail-with-body -O -J --data-urlencode "movie=Scary.Movie.2000.720p.mp4" https://erebus.feralhosting.com/milahu/bin/get-subtitles && unzip Scary.Movie.2000.720p.subs.zip

curl -G --fail-with-body -o - --data-urlencode "movie=Scary.Movie.2000.720p.mp4" https://erebus.feralhosting.com/milahu/bin/get-subtitles | bsdtar -xvf -



source

https://github.com/milahu/opensubtitles-scraper/raw/main/get-subs.py



client

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# get-subs.sh - get subtitles from subtitles server
server_url="https://erebus.feralhosting.com/milahu/bin/get-subtitles"
curl=(curl)
command -v curl >/dev/null || { echo "error: curl was not found"; exit 1; }
command -v unzip >/dev/null || { echo "error: unzip was not found"; exit 1; }
[ -n "$1" ] || { echo "usage: $0 path/to/Scary.Movie.2000.720p.mp4"; exit 1; }
while (( $# > 0 )); do
dir="$(dirname "$1")"
[ -e "$dir" ] || { echo "error: no such directory: ${dir@Q}"; exit 1; }
pushd "$dir" >/dev/null
movie="$(basename "$1")"
if command -v bsdtar >/dev/null; then
  # https://superuser.com/a/1834410/951886 # write error body to stderr
  "${curl[@]}" -G --fail-with-body -D - -o - --data-urlencode "movie=$movie" "$server_url" | {
    s=; while read -r h; do h="${h:0: -1}"; if [ -z "$s" ]; then s=${h#* }; s=${s%% *}; fi; [ -z "$h" ] && break; done
    if [ "${s:0:1}" = 2 ]; then cat; else cat >&2; fi
  } | bsdtar -xvf -
else
  zip="${movie%.*}.subs.zip"
  ! [ -e "$zip" ] || { echo "error: tempfile exists: ${zip@Q}"; exit 1; }
  if ! "${curl[@]}" -G --fail-with-body -o "$zip" --data-urlencode "movie=$movie" "$server_url"; then
    cat "$zip" && rm "$zip" # zip contains the error message
  else
    unzip "$zip" && rm "$zip"
  fi
fi
popd >/dev/null
shift
done



filenames

when you pass a movie filename like movie=Scary.Movie.2000.720p.mp4
then the subtitle files will be named Scary.Movie.2000.720p.12345.srt etc
so when you extract them to the folder of the movie file
then your video player should find the subtitles



language

you can pass one or more languages as 2 letter codes per ISO 639-1
or as 3 letter codes per ISO 639-2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639_language_codes

the output filenames have the format "Some.Movie.2000.{num}.{lang}.srt"
where lang is a 3 letter code compatible with video players

?movie=Futurama.S06E07.The.Late.Philip.J.Fry.mp4&lang=es

?movie=Futurama.S06E07.The.Late.Philip.J.Fry.mp4&lang=en,es,fr,de,cz,cn

?movie=Futurama.S06E07.The.Late.Philip.J.Fry.mp4&lang=eng,spa,fre,ger,cze,chi



encoding

the subtitles are not recoded to utf8
because im too lazy to finish this postprocessing
most subtitles should have utf8 encoding
but some subtitles can have single-byte encodings like latin1
see also
https://github.com/milahu/opensubtitles-scraper/raw/main/repack.py



adblocker

this is not done on the server side to save cpu time

to remove ads, see
https://github.com/milahu/opensubtitles-scraper/raw/main/opensubtitles_adblocker.py

to add more ads to the blocklist, see
https://github.com/milahu/opensubtitles-scraper/raw/main/opensubtitles_adblocker_add.py