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[–] s38b35M5@lemmy.world 266 points 2 years ago (3 children)

5,719,123 subtitles from opensubtitles.org

Wanted to search the text of every subtitle

https://files.catbox.moe/lrmid1.torrent

Bless the data hoarders

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That only solves half the issue. The other half is everything released after the change.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

They just need a paid account and they can keep appending to it.

"Open"subtitles has like a 1k dowload/day limit, which should cover most media.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] s38b35M5@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks! But I just found the former redditor/data hoarder who did all the real work.

[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Still, very much appreciated by us deafies!

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[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 222 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Finally: ClosedSubtitles

EDIT: Also, MAN, a lot of straight up bootlicking in this thread. What the fuck kind of pirates are you? lmao

[–] lemmy_nightmare@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How long have you been waiting?

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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 185 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 79 points 2 years ago

OpenWalletsSubtitles

[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 43 points 2 years ago

Hey now, I'm sure they'll still gladly accept free labor for subtitle submissions!

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 162 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Jesus, reading comprehension is hard to come by eh? How have so many people struggled to actually read this?

They aren't requiring payment, nor are they requiring you to sign in or create an account.

They are transitioning from an old API to a new one. The new API (and the site itself) is ad supported and rate limited; 5 downloads per day unauthenticated, double that for a free account, or 'VIP' accounts have higher limits and no ads.

It's not authenticated access only, nor is it paid access only.

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 139 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That doesn’t sound very open to me

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 66 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Title is a bit misleading. Starting with 2024 the site will be moving to a new API. The payment is too be able to continue to use the old API a while longer (for software that can't be changed yet).

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[–] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 97 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (40 children)

How... how could you possibly start trying to profit off of a major resource for accessibility to movies. That's scummier than scummy. Fuck you OpenSubtitles, you're the fucking Elon Musk and Steve Huffman of deaf people everywhere. Get absolutely fucked.

[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 50 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I swear I read a thread here (on lemmy) recently that one of these subtitle sites was embedding ads in the subtitles. Now that takes things even further than scummier in my opinion, especially since subtitles are for availability.

[–] JGrffn@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I mean I've been a pirate for a WHILE and you generally do see ads on opensubtitles subs. Generally it's opensubtitles saying you can advertise with them, or credits for subtitles that stay on the screen for way too long, but this has been a thing forever now, I don't recall a time when this wasn't done.

I don't think I can take the moral high ground on it seeing as...well, I am a pirate lol. We out here doing our best to stay afloat, opensubtitles included.

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 87 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ha, i love how their reasoning tried to not point out the obvious: money

upgrade to vip for a better user experience! (cuz we made the other one shitty on purpose cuz money)

im not faulting them for charging a price for a service, just dont blow smoke up my ass for why youre doin it.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 211 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm actually faulting them for trying to make money off a crowdsourced service. They didn't write the damn subtitles.

[–] 7u5k3n@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

.....make money off a crowdsourced service. They didn't write the damn subtitles.

Ah the reddit formula

[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

And ancestry dot com. That one still chaps my ass. My mom spent so much time in there adding in her work, and they just fucking locked it one day behind a paywall. Fuck these sites that just take the users hard work and then try and profit off it without announcing that from the get go.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Always assume that's the ultimate goal with for-profit services.

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[–] Norgur@kbin.social 69 points 2 years ago

See, I get when YouTube or some such are asking for some kind of payment, since transcoding and delivering all those large video files is expensive as fuck. Yet, Open subtitles delivers text. Fucking. Text. The rest is done for them for free by the users. No, folks. You ain't getting any money.

[–] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 65 points 2 years ago (5 children)

My wife is deaf, and I take this VERY fucking personally. This is predatory to an already (unfortunately) overlooked demographic of movie lovers, I will absolutely rally against this bullshit.

[–] dlpkl@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

I also choose this guy's deaf wife

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My wife is deaf. So subtitles are a deal breaker for any media implementation I implement.

That is why I pay for open subtitles. I get no ads, continued access after this change and I'm helping maintain a service we use daily.

[–] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

you know.... most companies include subs in the DVD or file.
For free.
You're paying for a service that should be the universal standard.

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[–] bogdugg@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 years ago

If you're looking for an alternative, I've had luck with https://subscene.com/

I don't really know what the best or most popular website is because this one has never really led me astray. That said, I don't need to use them too often, so your mileage may vary.

[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 46 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Finally, even OpenSubtitles gets enshittified.

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[–] amaki@jlai.lu 38 points 2 years ago

Subscene still exists, fortunately

[–] iso@lemy.lol 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Subtitles are the easiest material to pirate :) I'm sure they don't have a copyright either.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ye, but the problem is the ease of discovery

[–] iso@lemy.lol 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah probably all integrations are gonna break 😐

I hate them for injecting embedded ads to subs anyways, so hopefully they ruins the platform more so an alternative can emerge.

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[–] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

THE BALLS TO EVEN OFFER A "BLACK FRIDAY" DEAL, HOLY FUCK

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[–] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 31 points 2 years ago

Excellent so now they'll be paying volunteers for their work!

[–] maxwisecracks@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

*its previous API

[–] lukas@lemmy.haigner.me 26 points 2 years ago

Huh... weird. I can't visit ClosedSubtitles.org.

[–] SteefLem@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Why would you pirate a movie and then pay for subtitles? Makes no sense.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And decent pirated movies/TV shows will already come with the subtitles embedded in the video container nowadays, which is great.

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[–] Coud@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As far as I understand they are shutting down open subtitles.org API, but the jellyfin plugin uses the .com version. The free account there is limited to 20 downloads per day via API

[–] protput@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (7 children)

People are getting the their pitchforks out but I think they are misunderstanding. Opensubtitles.ORG is being replaced by opensubtitles.COM. They just are stopping access to the ORG website. I have already migrated to the COM website for a while. And a 20 downloads/a day limit for free users is very reasonable.

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[–] lixus98@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I guess this would also affect stremio's opensubtitles addons

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[–] ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc 13 points 2 years ago

ClosedCaptions.com

[–] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

oh fuck no, this kills qnapi and vlsub, doesn't it?

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