webvtt-py

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webvtt-py is a Python module for reading/writing WebVTT_ caption files. It also features caption segmentation useful when captioning HLS videos_.

Requires Python 3.4+.

Documentation is available at http://webvtt-py.readthedocs.io.

.. _WebVTT: http://dev.w3.org/html5/webvtt/ .. _HLS videos: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-19

Installation

::

$ pip install webvtt-py

Usage

.. code-block:: python

import webvtt

for caption in webvtt.read('captions.vtt'): print(caption.start) print(caption.end) print(caption.text)

Segmenting for HLS

.. code-block:: python

import webvtt

webvtt.segment('captions.vtt', 'output/path')

Converting captions from other formats

Supported formats:

• SubRip (.srt)
• YouTube SBV (.sbv)

.. code-block:: python

import webvtt

webvtt = webvtt.from_srt('captions.srt') webvtt.save()

one liner if we just need to convert without editing

webvtt.from_sbv('captions.sbv').save()

CLI

Caption segmentation is also available from the command line: ::

$ webvtt segment captions.vtt --output destination/directoy

License

Licensed under the MIT License.