Comments on: Ted Talks Subtitles Downloader

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:14:08 +0000

> eng spa
Downloading subtitles for languages: eng spa
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “tedm.py”, line 88, in
main(sys.argv[1])
File “tedm.py”, line 82, in main
downloadSub(idtalk, availables, int(vidpar[‘introDura
File “tedm.py”, line 62, in downloadSub
salida = file(’subs_%s_%s.srt’%(idtalk,reduce(lambda
‘w’)
File “tedm.py”, line 62, in
salida = file(’subs_%s_%s.srt’%(idtalk,reduce(lambda
‘w’)
TypeError: can only concatenate list (not “str”) to list

3 days to get here! haha…. It took 15 hours to figure out that executing scripts is done in the dos command prompt, that scripts must be in the same folder as the python program, and the command is python xxx.py. Hope to see an online version soon hahaha wow, you programmers are crazy.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:35:08 +0000

changed simplejson to json in line 58;

now…
entering 2+ languages leaves error lines on 88, 82 and 62

entering 1 language gives the text of the speech

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:10:24 +0000

For Python27
Line 3: import simplejson
change to
Line 3: import json

Where do you find the ID numbers for the tedtalks?

I’m getting the “could not fetch subtitles!” message

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:31:45 +0000

I have got as far as saving the code as a .py file, downloading a python interpreter then double clicking on the .py file. HAHA after some more hours the code and process will not seem like black magic!

An online version would be great!

http://www.imageupload.org/share.php?id=760A_4C455CB3

By: eordano

eordano — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:32:11 +0000

Let me know if it was helpful!

Thanks for giving me something to do

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:25:15 +0000

What a lucky day! A gift from the programming gods to the world!

By: eordano

eordano — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:45:57 +0000

Hi. It’s your lucky day. Since I was very bored studying, I took a break and modified the script to allow multiple languages in the same subtitle.

Here you go:
http://pastebin.com/FHnW1V2h

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:12:24 +0000

Esteban:

You are great!

Is it possible to have 2 or 3 languages as subtitles in one video? Copy and pasting each sentence works. Is there a method for copying pasting the entire text from one saved .SRT file into another?

By: eordano

eordano — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:56:36 +0000

Charles: You shouldn’t copy n paste, try with “Save page as…” and add the .srt extension to the file downloaded.

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:24:10 +0000

I copy pasted the text to notepad, but the subtitles do not load into the video with VLC player. Is other software needed to get the subtitles into the video file?