CzechTVSrtScraper

Scraper of hidden subtitles from Czech TV pages into SRT format.

Usage

To create SRT file with subtitles scraped from the webpage type following

# first episode of Most! series
url = 'https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/10995220806-most/216512120010001/titulky'

# scrape and save
import CzechTVSrt as CTsrt
CTsrt.scrape_srt(url, 'output.srt')

By default requests library is used for fetching. In order to use Selenium, it needs to be installed separately (manually) as well as the browser driver. By default, Chrome is used.

To use Selenium, type

import CzechTVSrt as CTsrt
CTsrt.scrape_srt(url, 'output.srt', use_selenium = True)

To use Selenium and Firefox as the browser type

import CzechTVSrt as CTsrt
CTsrt.scrape_srt(url, 'output.srt', use_selenium = True, browser = 'firefox')

The subtitles have specified only the start point, so the threshold for length can be set so it is well timed, by default it is 10 s. Set the threshold in seconds with

import CzechTVSrt as CTsrt
CTsrt.scrape_srt(url, 'output.srt', max_duration = 7)

Contribution

Author: Martin Benes