webvtt-py

webvtt-py is a Python module for reading/writing WebVTT caption files. It also features caption segmentation useful when captioning HLS videos.

Requires Python 3.4+.

Documentation is available at http://webvtt-py.readthedocs.io.

Installation

$ pip install webvtt-py

Usage

import webvtt

for caption in webvtt.read('captions.vtt'):
    print(caption.start)
    print(caption.end)
    print(caption.text)

Segmenting for HLS

import webvtt

webvtt.segment('captions.vtt', 'output/path')

Converting captions from other formats

Supported formats:

SubRip (.srt)
YouTube SBV (.sbv)

import webvtt

webvtt = webvtt.from_srt('captions.srt')
webvtt.save()

# one liner if we just need to convert without editing
webvtt.from_sbv('captions.sbv').save()

CLI

Caption segmentation is also available from the command line:

$ webvtt segment captions.vtt --output destination/directoy

License

Licensed under the MIT License.