[OpenSubtitles] Manual Search

[samukets]

Button to navigate on OpenSubtitle will be a good feature:

Magnetlink to justify the necessity:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:8CFA725050F0050B92E57CA0A010BAE0A0F104A8

[samukets]

Test trying to load Portuguese subtitle...

[jaruba]

A search form? Like VLSub?

[jaruba]

Or just a link to the search on the OpenSubtitles site that already includes filename and file hash?

[samukets]

A search form like VLsub is a good idea with title using file name pré-loaded... Good ideia

[jaruba]

@vankasteelj any thoughts on this? :)

[vankasteelj]

Using filename is useless, it's already what happens when querying the api with opensubtitles-api

If you absolutely want a search input for OpenSubtitles: what I'm using with OpenSubtitles-Uploader is a trick to prefill the search bar:

    var clearName = function(name) {
        var title = require('path').parse(name).name;
        return title
            .replace(/(400|480|720|1080)[pix]/gi, '') // quality clean
            .replace(/[xh]26\d|hevc|xvid|divx|aac/gi, '') // codecs
            .replace(/bluray|bdrip|brrip|dsr|dvdrip|dvd\Wrip|hdtv|\Wts\W|telesync|\Wcam\W/gi, '') // source
            .replace(/\Wextended\W|\Wproper/ig, '') // specials
            .replace(/[\.]/g, ' ') // has '.'
            .replace(/^\[.*\]/, '') // starts with brackets
            .replace(/\[(\w|\d)+\]/g, '') // remove brackets
            .replace(/\((\w|\d)+\)/g, '') // remove parenthesis
            .replace(/_/g, ' ') // has '_'
            .replace(/-/g, ' ') // has '-'
            .replace(/\-$/, '') // ends with '-'
            .replace(/\s.$/, '') // ends with ' '
            .replace(/^\./, '') // starts with '.'
            .replace(/^\-/, '') // starts with '-'
            .replace(/ +/g, ' '); // has multiple spaces
    };

    var getTitle = function (filename) {
        var begin_title = [],
            clean_title = [],
            count = 0,
            toPush = 0,
            title = clearName(filename).split(' ');

        for (var t in title) {
            if (!title[t].match(/^(the|an|19\d{2}|20\d{2}|a|of|in)$/i)) {
                clean_title.push(title[t]);
                toPush++;
            }
        }
        for (var u in clean_title) {
            if (count < (toPush > 5 ? 4 : toPush - 1) ) {
                begin_title.push(clean_title[u]);
                count++;
            }
        }
        return begin_title.join(' ');
    };

then:

getTitle('The.Hateful.Eight.2015.1080p.BluRay.H264.AAC-RARBG.mp4');

returns Hateful Eight

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But in general, if OpenSubtitles can't match your file with the things already being used in Powder, there's little chance a manual search will do any good. You'd better look at, maybe, automating a Google request (for example: open in browser 'https://google.com/?q=' + getTitle(filename) + ' ' + i18n.__('subtitle') + ' ' + i18n.getLocale();). Because I'm not aware of other good apis for subtitles, so this would probably lead to addic7ed as first result 80% of the time, and other like tvsubtitles the rest of the time.

IMO, if you create an entire search feature for OpenSubtitles, you won't get better results than with the actual search.

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Note: I'm basing myself on how powder-react is currently behaving, with the imdb and such, I'm not sure what 0.97 knows about file metadatas.

[jaruba]

@vankasteelj Powder v0.98 (released today), searches for everything that react-powder does except imdb id. (and in the same way too)

As your module merges imdb and hash searches, I see how it may be lacking the entire subtitle list. You made very good points about this though.