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5,719,123 subtitles from opensubtitles.org
Wanted to search the text of every subtitle
Bless the data hoarders
That only solves half the issue. The other half is everything released after the change.
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.
you da mvp!
Thanks! But I just found the former redditor/data hoarder who did all the real work.
Finally: ClosedSubtitles
EDIT: Also, MAN, a lot of straight up bootlicking in this thread. What the fuck kind of pirates are you? lmao
So much for “open”
OpenWalletsSubtitles
Hey now, I'm sure they'll still gladly accept free labor for subtitle submissions!
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.
"It's not paid, you can pay by watching ads and get a laughable amount of downloads per day for free!"
Sometimes you have to cycle through many subtitles to find the right one. They don't even produce them.
In the era of VPN, many users share the same IP too. You can reach the limit before downloading anything.
That doesn’t sound very open to me
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).
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.
I'm actually faulting them for trying to make money off a crowdsourced service. They didn't write the damn subtitles.
.....make money off a crowdsourced service. They didn't write the damn subtitles.
Ah the reddit formula
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.
This will just create new competition for them. I have been watching anime for several years and never once had to go through opensubtitles. Most releases now have the subtitles integrated so what is the value they bring to the whole thing?
Edit: I just realized I'm replying the one an only db0, you are the best, cheers!
Anime is a different culture. Most non-anime stuff doesn't have them embedded (especially the old stuff) and it's still useful for finding subtitles for other languages
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.
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.
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.
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.
I also choose this guy's deaf wife
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.
Subscene still exists, fortunately
Subtitles are the easiest material to pirate :) I'm sure they don't have a copyright either.
Ye, but the problem is the ease of discovery
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.
*its previous API
Excellent so now they'll be paying volunteers for their work!
man, they've change so much since 2017, where they were giving VIP membership out for free as a Christmas gift. Now they're making it so can't access the API for free anymore as a Christmas gift to themselves lmao
Now they're making it so can't access the API for free anymore
No, they're not.
They are switching from the old API to the new API. You can pay to continue using the old one, use the new one for free (max 5 downloads per day), or pay for less-restricted access to the new API.
Why would you pirate a movie and then pay for subtitles? Makes no sense.
And decent pirated movies/TV shows will already come with the subtitles embedded in the video container nowadays, which is great.
Huh... weird. I can't visit ClosedSubtitles.org.
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