pairsubs

This script allows you to dowload a pair of different language subtitles for a movie from opensubtitles.org. You can take a parallel text and practice you translation skill that will help you to learn a foreign language. All subtitles you've downloaded are stored on the disk and can be used later in the learning process.

Learning process

Download subtitles

List of subtitles

Align the subtitles

Requirements

python3

SRT processing library (https://github.com/cdown/srt)

urwid (Console user interface library)

Installation (virtualenv)

# clone repo
git clone https://github.com/zserg/pairsubs.git
cd pairsubs

# create virtual environment
virtualenv -p python3 venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

# run app
python pairsubs.py

Local subtitles database

The information about the all downloaded subtitles is stored in ~/.pairsubs/cache.json. The subtitles files are stored in ~/.pairsubs/files/ .