Subtitle Downloader

NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY

Subtitle-Downloader supports downloading subtitles from multiple streaming services, such as Apple TV+, CatchPlay, Crunchyroll, Disney+, FridayVideo, HBO GO Asia, iQIYI, iTunes, KKTV, LINE TV, meWATCH, MyVideo, NowE, NowPlayer, Viki, Viu, WeTV, YouTube, etc.

DESCRIPTION

Subtitle-Downloader is a command-line program to download subtitles from the most popular streaming platform. It requires Python 3.10+, and NodeJS. It should work on Linux, on Windows, or macOS. This project is only for personal research and language learning.

INSTALLATION

• Linux, macOS:

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Windows: Execute install_requirements.bat

Service Requirements

Name	Authentication	Geo-blocking
Apple TV+	Cookies
CatchPlay	Cookies	Indonesia, Singapore, and Taiwan
Crunchyroll	Cookies
Disney+	Email & Password
Friday Video	Cookies	Taiwan
HBO GO Asia	Email & Password
iQIYI (iq.com)	Cookies	Partial region
iTunes
KKTV
LINE TV
MeWATCH	Profile Token	Singapore
MyVideo	Cookies	Taiwan
NowE	Cookies
Now Player	Cookies
Viki	Cookies	Partial region
Viu
WeTV	Cookies	Partial region
YouTube	Cookies (Subscribe channel)

Get Cookies

1. Install Chrome plugin: get-cookiestxt-locally
2. Login to the streaming service, and use the plugin to download cookies.txt (Don't modify anything even the file name)
3. Put cookie.txt into Subtitle-Downloader/cookies

Email & Password

• Fill your email and password in Subtitle-Downloader/user_config.toml

USAGE

Online (Colab environment is in the US, if you want to use it in another region please execute it locally)

1. Save a copy in Drive
2. Connect Colab
3. Install the requirements (Click 1st play button)
4. Depend the download platform and modify the text field (Click the play button next to it when modified completely)
5. Download the subtitles from the left-side menu

Local

1. Depending on the download platform and modify Subtitle-Downloader/user_config.toml

   [subtitles]
   default-language = 'en'  # all/en/zh-Hant/zh-Hans/zh-HK/ja/ko
   default-format = '.srt'  # .srt/.ass
   archive = true           # true/false
   
   [headers]
   User-Agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
   
   [credentials.DisneyPlus]
   email = ''
   password = ''
   
   [proxies]
   us = 'http:127.0.0.1:7890' # Clash
   
   [nordvpn]
   username = ''
   password = ''

2. Follow each platform's requirements and put cookies.txt into Subtitle-Downloader/cookies

3. Execute the program with the command line or Subtitle-Downloader.bat (Paste the title's URL)

   python subtitle_downloader.py URL [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS

  -h, --help                    show this help message and exit

  -s --season                   download season [0-9]

  -e --episode                  download episode [0-9]

  -l, --last-episode            download last episode

  -o, --output                  output directory

  -slang, --subtitle-language   languages of subtitles; use commas to separate multiple languages
                                default: Traditional Chinese
                                all: download all available languages

  -alang, --audio-language      languages of audio-tracks; use commas to separate multiple languages

  -sf, --subtitle-format        subtitles format: .srt or .ass

  -locale, --locale             interface language

  -p, --proxy                   proxy

  -d, --debug                   enable debug logging

  -v, --version                 app's version

Subtitle Languages

Disney+

Codec	Language
en	English [CC]
zh-Hant	Chinese (Traditional)
zh-Hans	Chinese (Simplified)
zh-HK	Cantonese
da	Dansk
de	Deutsch
de-forced	Deutsch [forced]
es-ES	Español
es-ES-forced	Español [forced]
es-419	Español (Latinoamericano)
es-419-forced	Español (Latinoamericano) [forced]
fr-FR	Français
fr-FR-forced	Français [forced]
fr-CA	Français (Canadien)
fr-CA-forced	Français (Canadien) [forced]
it	Italiano
it-forced	Italiano [forced]
ja	Japanese
ja-forced	Japanese [forced]
ko	Korean
ko-forced	Korean [forced]
nl	Nederlands
no	Norsk
pl	Polski
pl-forced	Polski [forced]
pt-PT	Português
pt-BR	Português (Brasil)
pt-BR-forced	Português (Brasil) [forced]
fi	Suomi
sv	Svenska

HBO GO Asia

Codec	Language
en	English
zh-Hant	Traditional Chinese
zh-Hans	Simplified Chinese
ms	Malay
th	Thai
id	Indonesian

iQIYI iq.com

Codec	Language
en	English
zh-Hant	Traditional Chinese
zh-Hans	Simplified Chinese
ms	Malay
vi	Vietnamese
th	Thai
id	Indonesian
es	Spanish
ko	Korean
ar	Arabic

Viu

Codec	Language
en	English
zh-Hant	Traditional Chinese
zh-Hans	Simplified Chinese
ms	Malay
th	Thai
id	Indonesian
my	Burmese

WeTV

Codec	Language
en	English
zh-Hant	Traditional Chinese
zh-Hans	Simplified Chinese
ms
th	Thai
id	Indonesian
pt	Português
es	Spanish
ko	Korean

meWATCH

1. Login to meWATCH on the browser.
2. Select a movie or series you want to download
3. Open the devtools in the browser (Windows: Ctrl + Shift + I or F12; macOS: ⌘ + ⌥ + I.)
4. Refresh the page and select Network on devtools
5. Type https://www.mewatch.sg/api/account/profile in the filter to find the profile api
6. Copy profile token (X-Authorization) from profile API Request Headers (Do not include Bearer, the profile token starts with eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzUxMiJ9.eyJ) and paste in Subtitle-Downloader/user_config.toml ([credentials.meWATCH] profile_token='').

Now E, Now Player

• Copy the user-agent from login browser https://www.whatsmyua.info/ and paste it in Subtitle-Downloader/user_config.toml (User-Agent). The user-agent must be the same as login browser user-agent.

More Examples

• Download all seasons and all episodes

python subtitle_downloader.py URL

• Download season 1 episode 1

python subtitle_downloader.py URL -s 1 -e 1

• Download season 1 episode 1's subtitle with all languages

python subtitle_downloader.py URL -s 1 -e 1 -slang all

• Download all episode subtitles in all languages: en, zh-Hant

python subtitle_downloader.py https://www.disneyplus.com/series/loki/6pARMvILBGzF -slang en,zh-Hant

• Download the latest episode

python subtitle_downloader.py URL -l

• Download season 1 episode 1-10

python subtitle_downloader.py URL -s 1 -e 1-10

• Download season 1 episode 1,3,5

python subtitle_downloader.py URL -s 1 -e 1,3,5

• Download season 1 episodes with NordVPN (region=tw)

python subtitle_downloader.py URL -s 1 -p tw

• Download season 1 episodes with proxy (Clash)

python subtitle_downloader.py URL -s 1 -p http:127.0.0.1:7890

• Download season 1 episodes with .ass format subtitle

python subtitle_downloader.py URL -s 1 -sf .ass

NOTICE

• Few streaming services have Geo-blocking, make sure you are in the same region or use a proxy to bypass restrictions.
• Disney+ doesn't support VPN.
• Viki has API protection, don't call API too often. (Only catch 100% completed subtitles)

FAQ

• Any issue during downloading subtitles, upload the screenshot and log file (Please provide title, platform, and region).
• Make sure the video contains embedded subtitles (subtitles able to turn on and off) and it is playable in your region.

Support & Contributions

• Please ⭐️ this repository if this project helped you!
• Contributions of any kind are welcome!

Appendix

• Netflix: Netflix subtitle downloader
• Amazon (Prime Video): Amazon subtitle downloader