Clean and convert vtt to srt
The cleaning vtt duplicate part is based on Terence Eden's snippet.
Then, it simply convert vtt to srt and print to stdout.
If the result looks good, then you could save it via pipe.
vtt形式のキャプションファイルを、重複するテキストを除いた上でsrt形式に変換してTerminalに出力します。 ファイルに保存するには > でファイルへとpipeして下さい。
WEBVTT
Kind: captions
Language: en
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it's<00:00:00.799><c> always</c><00:00:01.120><c> more</c><00:00:01.360><c> challenging</c><00:00:01.839><c> to</c><00:00:02.000><c> hit</c><00:00:02.159><c> a</c>
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it's always more challenging to hit a
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it's always more challenging to hit a
moving<00:00:02.800><c> target</c><00:00:03.360><c> especially</c><00:00:03.919><c> in</c><00:00:04.080><c> science</c><00:00:04.960><c> by</c>
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moving target especially in science by
will become
1
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it's always more challenging to hit a
2
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moving target especially in science by
🕺🏼🕺🏼🕺🏼Yeah!
The video in this example is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihwoIlxHI3Q
Use Python3.x
There is one dependency to install:
pip install webvtt-py
then git clone or just download the py file.
The first arg is the vtt file name. The second arg (optional) is a flag to choose srt output (0) or text only text file (1).
To convert vtt to srt and print to the terminal:
python vtt2srt.py TheEarthDisaster.vtt
To save it, just send the standard out to a file via pipe:
python vtt2srt.py TheEarthDisaster.vtt > TheEarthDisaster.srt
If you are on Windows, > should be repaced with | like
python vtt2srt.py TheEarthDisaster.vtt | TheEarthDisaster.srt
You can also extract just the text parts (ignoring the time stamps):
python vtt2srt.py TheEarthDisaster.vtt 1 > TheEarthDisaster.text
