Interactive command-line utility to download subtitles from opensubtitles.org.
- You need to have an active account on opensubtitles.org, register here: https://www.opensubtitles.org/register/
- You need node.js and npm installed on your system, any version newer than 16 can be used.
npx ossub-downloader --lang=engIf you do not specify value for --lang, eng is going to be used.
Language should be specified as a three-letter language code.
You can also use all to show all subtitles regardless of language.
By default, ossub-downloader searches for video files in the working directory and uses them to search for subtitles.
But you can specify a video file manually:
npx ossub-downloader --lang=eng video.mp4Opensubtitles allows searching subtitles by file hash.
This method is used by default by ossub-downloader.
It gives less results, but it is more accurate.
But if you want to search by file name only, you can specify --use-name (or its shorthand -n) flag:
npx ossub-downloader --use-name
npx ossub-downloader -nOpensubtitles API requires authorization.
Upon starting, ossub-downloader is going to ask for your username and password.
You can save them into ~/.ossub-downloader.creds.json file and not be prompted to type them again but it can be insecure, because this file is not encrypted in any way.