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webvtt-py

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WebVTT reader, writer and segmenter

Last release 2 years ago
no release in 18 months
Ships unpredictably
gaps range from 2 weeks to 3.5 years
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 14 of 15 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
10 years old
15 releases · first in 2016

Release timeline

15 releases since 2016

2016201820202022

Releases

0.5.130 May 20242 sources agree
Extended from_buffer support to allow BytesIO and also other format conversions
Added voice span support (#55)

Extended from_buffer support to allow BytesIO and also other format conversions (#32)

Fixed save SRT to not include cue tags, thanks to @lilaboc <https://github.com/lilaboc>_ (#56)

Fixed saved caption to include a line break after the last caption as per standard (#49)
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0.5.015 May 2024Deprecated2 sources agree
Deprecated read_buffer in favor of from_buffer
Added styles support

Added comments support

Added from_string

Added iterate over a slice of captions

Refactor of the library

Parser is no longer strict and ignores malformed blocks

Improved BOM support allowing to keep the BOM or remove it

Deprecated read_buffer in favor of from_buffer

Removed support for old versions of Python: 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6

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0.4.618 Nov 20202 sources agree

Add capability to get WebVTT formatted content without an output file, thanks to @DawoudSheraz

Add capability to get WebVTT formatted content without an output file, thanks to @DawoudSheraz (#34)
Add Python 3.9 support

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0.4.59 Apr 20202 sources agree

Fix issue reading buffer

Fix issue reading buffer

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0.4.427 Mar 20202 sources agree

Allow parsing empty SBV captions, thanks to @ishunyu

Allow parsing empty SBV captions, thanks to @ishunyu (#26)
Fix invalid time cues, thanks to @sontek (#19)
Enable pytest as test runner, thanks to @sontek (#20)
Packaging improvements
Added Python 3.8 support
Improve parsing empty lines

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0.4.322 Nov 20192 sources agree

Parsing improvements, thanks to @sontek

Parsing improvements, thanks to @sontek (#18)
Add support for reading content from a file-like object, thanks to @omerholz (#23)
Documentation fixes thanks to @sontek (#22) and @netcmcc (#24)

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0.4.28 Jun 20182 sources agree

Renamed and reorganized few of the modules

Renamed and reorganized few of the modules
Parsing methods are now class methods: read, from_srt and from_sbv
Improved usability with the addition of shortcuts to avoid instantiating the classes so we can do:

import webvtt

webvtt.read('captions.vtt') # this will return a WebVTT instance

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0.4.124 Dec 20172 sources agree

Support for saving cue identifiers

Support for saving cue identifiers

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0.4.018 Sept 20172 sources agree

The main goal of this release is a refactor of the WebVTT parser to be able to parse easier and give support to new features of the format.

New features:

Support for cue identifiers
Support for parsing WebVTT captions with comments
Support for parsing WebVTT captions with Style blocks
Support for BOM in caption files
Added method to write the captions to an opened file
Convert WebVTT to SRT format
Ignore empty captions in SRT format

Other:

Refactored WebVTT parser

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0.3.323 Aug 2017

The text for the caption is now returned clean (tags removed). The cue text could contain tags like:

timestamp tags: <00:19.000>
class tags: <c.classname>text
and others...
Important: It currently removes any tag present in the cue text. For example <b> would be removed.

Also a new attribute is available on captions to retrieve the text without cleaning tags: raw_text

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Additional notes

The text for the caption is now returned clean (tags removed). The cue text could contain tags like: * timestamp tags: <00:19.000> * class tags: <c.classname>text</c> * and others... Important: It currently removes any tag present in the cue text. For example <b> would be removed.

Also a new attribute is available on captions to retrieve the text without cleaning tags: raw_text

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0.3.211 Aug 20172 sources agree

The goal of this release if to allow the WebVTT parser to be able to read caption files that contain metadata headers that extend to more than one lin

The goal of this release if to allow the WebVTT parser to be able to read caption files that contain metadata headers that extend to more than one line.

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0.3.18 Aug 20172 sources agree

Made hours in WebVTT parser optional as per specs.