added --srt-lang; updated README; extended the -g FAQ
authorFilippo Valsorda <filippo.valsorda@gmail.com>
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:56:08 +0000 (14:56 +0100)
committerFilippo Valsorda <filippo.valsorda@gmail.com>
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:56:08 +0000 (14:56 +0100)
README.md
youtube-dl
youtube_dl/__init__.py

index 5008e5a369727944af31b61376b1927bcff15938..1f752b9a75e6db2556a3676f16b2b4d0580d4001 100644 (file)
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
                              requested
     --max-quality FORMAT     highest quality format to download
     -F, --list-formats       list all available formats (currently youtube only)
+    --write-srt              write video closed captions to a .srt file
+                             (currently youtube only)
+    --srt-lang LANG          language of the closed captions to download
+                             (optional) use IETF language tags like 'en'
 
 ### Authentication Options:
     -u, --username USERNAME  account username
@@ -106,7 +110,7 @@ Once the video is fully downloaded, use any video player, such as [vlc](http://w
 
 ### The links provided by youtube-dl -g are not working anymore
 
-The URLs youtube-dl outputs require the downloader to have the correct cookies. Use the `--cookies` option to write the required cookies into a file, and advise your downloader to read cookies from that file.
+The URLs youtube-dl outputs require the downloader to have the correct cookies. Use the `--cookies` option to write the required cookies into a file, and advise your downloader to read cookies from that file. Some sites also require a common user agent to be used, use `--dump-user-agent` to see the one in use by youtube-dl.
 
 ### ERROR: no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info
 
index 689427f5baee153f1ff033792567cdb7da0a3c74..5224611d27b097d851c228d30edcb0f8c1d3a260 100755 (executable)
@@ -491,6 +491,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
        writedescription: Write the video description to a .description file
        writeinfojson:    Write the video description to a .info.json file
        writesubtitles:   Write the video subtitles to a .srt file
+       subtitleslang:    Language of the subtitles to download
        """
 
        params = None
@@ -1443,17 +1444,24 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
                        else:
                                srt_lang_list = re.findall(r'lang_code="([\w\-]+)"', srt_list)
                                if srt_lang_list:
-                                       if 'en' in srt_lang_list: srt_lang = 'en'
-                                       else: srt_lang = srt_lang_list[0] # TODO choose better and provide an override
-                                       request = urllib2.Request('http://video.google.com/timedtext?hl=en&lang=%s&v=%s' % (srt_lang, video_id))
-                                       try:
-                                               srt_xml = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-                                       except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
-                                               self._downloader.trouble(u'WARNING: unable to download video subtitles: %s' % str(err))
+                                       if self._downloader.params.get('subtitleslang', False):
+                                               srt_lang = self._downloader.params.get('subtitleslang')
+                                       elif 'en' in srt_lang_list:
+                                               srt_lang = 'en'
+                                       else:
+                                               srt_lang = srt_lang_list[0]
+                                       if not srt_lang in srt_lang_list:
+                                               self._downloader.trouble(u'WARNING: no closed captions found in the specified language')
                                        else:
-                                               video_subtitles = self._closed_captions_xml_to_srt(srt_xml.decode('utf-8'))
+                                               request = urllib2.Request('http://video.google.com/timedtext?hl=en&lang=%s&v=%s' % (srt_lang, video_id))
+                                               try:
+                                                       srt_xml = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+                                               except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                                                       self._downloader.trouble(u'WARNING: unable to download video subtitles: %s' % str(err))
+                                               else:
+                                                       video_subtitles = self._closed_captions_xml_to_srt(srt_xml.decode('utf-8'))
                                else:
-                                       self._downloader.trouble(u'WARNING: video has no subtitles')
+                                       self._downloader.trouble(u'WARNING: video has no closed captions')
 
                # token
                video_token = urllib.unquote_plus(video_info['token'][0])
@@ -4385,6 +4393,12 @@ def parseOpts():
                        action='store', dest='format_limit', metavar='FORMAT', help='highest quality format to download')
        video_format.add_option('-F', '--list-formats',
                        action='store_true', dest='listformats', help='list all available formats (currently youtube only)')
+       video_format.add_option('--write-srt',
+                       action='store_true', dest='writesubtitles',
+                       help='write video closed captions to a .srt file (currently youtube only)', default=False)
+       video_format.add_option('--srt-lang',
+                       action='store', dest='subtitleslang', metavar='LANG',
+                       help='language of the closed captions to download (optional) use IETF language tags like \'en\'')
 
 
        verbosity.add_option('-q', '--quiet',
@@ -4449,9 +4463,6 @@ def parseOpts():
        filesystem.add_option('--write-info-json',
                        action='store_true', dest='writeinfojson',
                        help='write video metadata to a .info.json file', default=False)
-       filesystem.add_option('--write-srt',
-                       action='store_true', dest='writesubtitles',
-                       help='write video subtitles to a .srt file', default=False)
 
 
        postproc.add_option('--extract-audio', action='store_true', dest='extractaudio', default=False,
@@ -4653,6 +4664,7 @@ def _real_main():
                'writedescription': opts.writedescription,
                'writeinfojson': opts.writeinfojson,
                'writesubtitles': opts.writesubtitles,
+               'subtitleslang': opts.subtitleslang,
                'matchtitle': opts.matchtitle,
                'rejecttitle': opts.rejecttitle,
                'max_downloads': opts.max_downloads,
index 3b9e2d70e6da720b53f4c37b6815727c37721338..5224611d27b097d851c228d30edcb0f8c1d3a260 100755 (executable)
@@ -490,6 +490,8 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
        updatetime:       Use the Last-modified header to set output file timestamps.
        writedescription: Write the video description to a .description file
        writeinfojson:    Write the video description to a .info.json file
+       writesubtitles:   Write the video subtitles to a .srt file
+       subtitleslang:    Language of the subtitles to download
        """
 
        params = None
@@ -681,6 +683,10 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
                """ Report that the description file is being written """
                self.to_screen(u'[info] Writing video description to: ' + descfn)
 
+       def report_writesubtitles(self, srtfn):
+               """ Report that the subtitles file is being written """
+               self.to_screen(u'[info] Writing video subtitles to: ' + srtfn)
+
        def report_writeinfojson(self, infofn):
                """ Report that the metadata file has been written """
                self.to_screen(u'[info] Video description metadata as JSON to: ' + infofn)
@@ -808,6 +814,21 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
                        except (OSError, IOError):
                                self.trouble(u'ERROR: Cannot write description file ' + descfn)
                                return
+                               
+               if self.params.get('writesubtitles', False) and 'subtitles' in info_dict and info_dict['subtitles']:
+                       # subtitles download errors are already managed as troubles in relevant IE
+                       # that way it will silently go on when used with unsupporting IE 
+                       try:
+                               srtfn = filename.rsplit('.', 1)[0] + u'.srt'
+                               self.report_writesubtitles(srtfn)
+                               srtfile = open(_encodeFilename(srtfn), 'wb')
+                               try:
+                                       srtfile.write(info_dict['subtitles'].encode('utf-8'))
+                               finally:
+                                       srtfile.close()
+                       except (OSError, IOError):
+                               self.trouble(u'ERROR: Cannot write subtitles file ' + descfn)
+                               return
 
                if self.params.get('writeinfojson', False):
                        infofn = filename + u'.info.json'
@@ -1206,6 +1227,10 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
                """Report attempt to download video info webpage."""
                self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] %s: Downloading video info webpage' % video_id)
 
+       def report_video_subtitles_download(self, video_id):
+               """Report attempt to download video info webpage."""
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] %s: Downloading video subtitles' % video_id)
+
        def report_information_extraction(self, video_id):
                """Report attempt to extract video information."""
                self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] %s: Extracting video information' % video_id)
@@ -1218,6 +1243,23 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
                """Indicate the download will use the RTMP protocol."""
                self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] RTMP download detected')
 
+       def _closed_captions_xml_to_srt(self, xml_string):
+               srt = ''
+               texts = re.findall(r'<text start="([\d\.]+)"( dur="([\d\.]+)")?>([^<]+)</text>', xml_string, re.MULTILINE)
+               # TODO parse xml instead of regex
+               for n, (start, dur_tag, dur, caption) in enumerate(texts):
+                       if not dur: dur = '4'
+                       start = float(start)
+                       end = start + float(dur)
+                       start = "%02i:%02i:%02i,%03i" %(start/(60*60), start/60%60, start%60, start%1*1000)
+                       end = "%02i:%02i:%02i,%03i" %(end/(60*60), end/60%60, end%60, end%1*1000)
+                       caption = re.sub(ur'(?u)&(.+?);', htmlentity_transform, caption)
+                       caption = re.sub(ur'(?u)&(.+?);', htmlentity_transform, caption) # double cycle, inentional
+                       srt += str(n) + '\n'
+                       srt += start + ' --> ' + end + '\n'
+                       srt += caption + '\n\n'
+               return srt
+
        def _print_formats(self, formats):
                print 'Available formats:'
                for x in formats:
@@ -1389,6 +1431,37 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
                        vwebpage_doc = lxml.etree.parse(StringIO.StringIO(video_webpage), html_parser)
                        video_description = u''.join(vwebpage_doc.xpath('id("eow-description")//text()'))
                        # TODO use another parser
+                       
+               # closed captions
+               video_subtitles = None
+               if self._downloader.params.get('writesubtitles', False):
+                       self.report_video_subtitles_download(video_id)
+                       request = urllib2.Request('http://video.google.com/timedtext?hl=en&type=list&v=%s' % video_id)
+                       try:
+                               srt_list = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+                       except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'WARNING: unable to download video subtitles: %s' % str(err))
+                       else:
+                               srt_lang_list = re.findall(r'lang_code="([\w\-]+)"', srt_list)
+                               if srt_lang_list:
+                                       if self._downloader.params.get('subtitleslang', False):
+                                               srt_lang = self._downloader.params.get('subtitleslang')
+                                       elif 'en' in srt_lang_list:
+                                               srt_lang = 'en'
+                                       else:
+                                               srt_lang = srt_lang_list[0]
+                                       if not srt_lang in srt_lang_list:
+                                               self._downloader.trouble(u'WARNING: no closed captions found in the specified language')
+                                       else:
+                                               request = urllib2.Request('http://video.google.com/timedtext?hl=en&lang=%s&v=%s' % (srt_lang, video_id))
+                                               try:
+                                                       srt_xml = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+                                               except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                                                       self._downloader.trouble(u'WARNING: unable to download video subtitles: %s' % str(err))
+                                               else:
+                                                       video_subtitles = self._closed_captions_xml_to_srt(srt_xml.decode('utf-8'))
+                               else:
+                                       self._downloader.trouble(u'WARNING: video has no closed captions')
 
                # token
                video_token = urllib.unquote_plus(video_info['token'][0])
@@ -1461,6 +1534,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
                                        'thumbnail':    video_thumbnail.decode('utf-8'),
                                        'description':  video_description,
                                        'player_url':   player_url,
+                                       'subtitles':    video_subtitles
                                })
                        except UnavailableVideoError, err:
                                self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download video')
@@ -4319,6 +4393,12 @@ def parseOpts():
                        action='store', dest='format_limit', metavar='FORMAT', help='highest quality format to download')
        video_format.add_option('-F', '--list-formats',
                        action='store_true', dest='listformats', help='list all available formats (currently youtube only)')
+       video_format.add_option('--write-srt',
+                       action='store_true', dest='writesubtitles',
+                       help='write video closed captions to a .srt file (currently youtube only)', default=False)
+       video_format.add_option('--srt-lang',
+                       action='store', dest='subtitleslang', metavar='LANG',
+                       help='language of the closed captions to download (optional) use IETF language tags like \'en\'')
 
 
        verbosity.add_option('-q', '--quiet',
@@ -4583,6 +4663,8 @@ def _real_main():
                'updatetime': opts.updatetime,
                'writedescription': opts.writedescription,
                'writeinfojson': opts.writeinfojson,
+               'writesubtitles': opts.writesubtitles,
+               'subtitleslang': opts.subtitleslang,
                'matchtitle': opts.matchtitle,
                'rejecttitle': opts.rejecttitle,
                'max_downloads': opts.max_downloads,