oshenc/srttotext

This is a simple command-line subtitle converter. It converts subtitle srt-file to plain text.

srttotext

This is a simple command-line subtitle converter. It converts subtitle file to plain text/

What does it make?

Lets see the example

Before

    $cat Star.Wars.Episode.5.The.Empire.Strikes.Back.1980.1080p.BrRip.x264.BOKUTOX.YIFY.srt | head

1
00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:10,000
<font color="#20e020">Cleaned, corrected, some OCR errors
fixed and some timings optimized by Tronar</font>

2
00:03:33,585 --> 00:03:35,498
Echo Three to Echo Seven.

3

After

    $srt2text Star.Wars.Episode.5.The.Empire.Strikes.Back.1980.1080p.BrRip.x264.BOKUTOX.YIFY.srt | head

It produces:

Cleaned, corrected, some OCR errors
fixed and some timings optimized by Tronar
Echo Three to Echo Seven.
Han, old buddy,
do you read me?
Loud and clear, kid.
What's up?
Well, I finished my circle.
I don't pick up any life readings.
There isn't enough life on this ice cube

Getting started

Clone the repository using git, make it executable, then move the binary file to one of you bin folders

git clone https://github.com/oshenc/srttotext.git
cd srttotext
chmod +x srt2text.sh
sudo mv srt2text.sh /usr/local/bin/srt2text

Usage

$srt2text 
Ussage srt2text SRTFILE

By default it outputs text to stdoutput. So you can redirect the output to the file.

E.g

$srt2text somesrtcfile.srt > output.txt

srttotext's Issues

Remove duplicate lines using awk

Hi,

nice script, thanks.

Sometimes after downloading videos with autogenerated subs you get many duplicate lines.
To remove them I just added an AWK one-liner to the SED command like this:

sed -r -e 's/^\xef\xbb\xbf//'
-e 's/\r//'
-e 's/^[0-9]$//'
-e '/^[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2},[0-9]{3} --> [0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2},[0-9]{3}$/d'
-e 's/^\s$//'
-e '/^$/d;s/<[^>]*>//g' "$1" | awk '!NF || NR > rec[$0]; {rec[$0] = NR+2}'

This now removes duplicate lines only if the duplicate item follow s immediately immediately follow one another.

Bye