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Automatically find and download the right subtitles for your favorite videos!

v6.2

4 months ago
  • Various bug fixes
  • Various CLI improvements

v6.1

4 months ago
  • Various bug fixes
  • Various CLI improvements
  • Add a method to ignore HI (hearing impaired) or AI generated subtitles, if configured

v6.0

4 months ago
  • Use the new REST API from opensubtitles.com
  • Various CLI improvements

Special thanks to @FriendlyTroll to get the ball rolling on the API conversion!

A valid account from opensubtitles.com is still REQUIRED to run the script

An "old" opensubtitles.org account won't work anymore

v5.0

3 years ago
  • This release requires Python 3+
  • Improve login logic and error messages
  • Improve language code file suffix handling
  • Map a few more settings to CLI arguments
  • Make CLI interruptible with CTRL+C
  • Wait more time between successive subtitles download, to avoid "429 Too Many Requests" error
  • Add a Windows "drag & drop" batch file
  • Fix Linux desktop files

v4.2

3 years ago
  • This is the last release compatible with Python 2
  • Improve login logic and error messages
  • Improve language code file suffix handling
  • (Contains most fixes from OpenSubtitlesDownload v5.0)

v4.1

4 years ago
  • New feature: subtitles are now downloaded in UTF-8 encoded files (deactivatable)
  • New feature: check files in folder recursively (ONLY when using the CLI)
  • Fix some issues with string escaping for file name and title
  • Improve behaviour when too many request in a short time are made

v4.0

4 years ago
  • New feature: search subtitles files recursively by clicking on a folder!
  • New feature: CLI on Windows should now work
  • New feature: CLI usage with -i or --skip to skip search if an existing subtitles file is detected
  • New feature: CLI usage with -o or --output to override subtitles download path
  • Fixed KDE and kdialog support
  • Minor bugfixes and security related improvements
  • Minor GUI improvements

v3.6

5 years ago
  • New feature: You can now choose your search mode between hash, filename, hash_then_filename, hash_and_filename (and adjust it through CLI)
  • New feature: You can now choose your selection mode between manual, default or auto (and adjust it through CLI)
  • New feature: Add a new exit code for successful execution but with no subtitles found
  • Fix a problem when first successful search round was disabling search by filename for next rounds
  • Add a setting (opt_search_overwrite) to avoid re-downloading an existing subtitles (disabled by default)
  • Respect language priority when auto selecting a subtitles
  • Better exceptions handling
  • Various bugfixes

v3.5

7 years ago
  • New feature: search by filename (if the search by hash sums fails)
  • New feature: use your opensubtitles.org VIP account to avoid in-subtitles ads
  • New feature: Warn the user if a required tool (wget, gunzip) is missing
  • Improved subtitles auto selection
  • Improved error messages
  • Improved language selection

v3.2

9 years ago
  • New feature: Search subtitles over samba/ftp/http nautilus mounts!
  • Various fixes on string sanitization
  • Longer "auto-retry" timers when opensubtitles.org is not responding
  • Code cleanups and internal improvments as usual