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I wonder if it would be possible to add more subtitle providers [in addition to opensubtitles.org]?
Sometimes, I cannot find a particular subtitle on subtitle.org, but I may find it elsewhere, e.g. addic7ed.com.
I believe that they have an API: https://www.npmjs.com/package/addic7ed-api

There may also be other (even better?) providers with API

addic7ed doesn't have an API and FileBot doesn't do page scrapers. If addic7ed developers wanted 3rd party programs to access their stuff, they'd have an open API.

OK. What is the "API" shown here https://www.npmjs.com/package/addic7ed-api?

That's just code that scrapes the HTML page, and provides an "API" so other people don't have to deal with it. When I refer to "API" I mean a web service meant to be used by 3rd party programs. A HTML page is not that.

PS: they make money from ads on page views, so there's a reason these sites want you to go there yourself

http://thesubdb.com/
This one seems really good and they have an API (with hash search).
Opensubtitles.org doesn't always have my subtitles, and I then turn to this site. Would be great if they could be added to FileBot.

I'll look into it. The API should be sound, but last time i checked a few years ago i rarely got any results.

Can you also add https://subscene.com

Theabim wrote:Can you also add https://subscene.com

subscene.com most certainly would not agree with that, legally speaking. Also, there's no API.

Ok thanks anyway

I am often forced to manually look up subtitles on subscene because they are not available on opensubtitles
How about this API:
https://github.com/mamins1376/Subscene-API
(https://pypi.python.org/pypi/subscene-api/)
Would that work? Would it download subtitles?

Yes, but it wouldn't be strictly legal.

Subscene wrote:4.2.3 No Unauthorized Copying, Broadcasting or Screen Scraping.

Also, FileBot hasn't done any screen scraping for a long time, and I prefer keeping it that way.

Is the github API doing screen scraping?

If it does, then isn't the scraping already done by the API, so FileBot wouldn't actually do any scraping?

Still violates the Terms of Service. Still breaks whenever the website changes. So not gonna happen.

Besides, it's a Python API so writing my own scraper (or resurrecting the old FileBot Subscene scraper from years ago) would probably be easier than to include a Python runtime just to use that API.

Feel free to contact Subscene and ask them to make a web service for 3rd party programs.

rednoah wrote:Feel free to contact Subscene and ask them to make a web service for 3rd party programs.

It has been asked, but they said that they were "too busy" to write an API (and this was in April 2009 )
http://v2.subscene.com/forums/p/43717/488790.aspx