Subdx-dl

A cli tool for download subtitle from www.subdivx.com with the better possible matching results.

Install

pip install -U subdx-dl

Or using pipx

pipx install subdx-dl

Portable Version

You can download the portable version for Windows x64 (subdx-dl.exe) and x86 (subdx-dl_x86.exe), as well as the binary for Linux (subdx-dl) from: release

Tips for portable usage

Try to put the executable version in the environment variables PATH , here some examples:

In Linux:

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin && \
curl --progress-bar -L "https://github.com/Spheres-cu/subdx-dl/releases/latest/download/subdx-dl" -o ~/.local/bin/subdx-dl && \
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/subdx-dl && \
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

or

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin && \
wget --show-progress --progress=bar:force -qO ~/.local/bin/subdx-dl "https://github.com/Spheres-cu/subdx-dl/releases/latest/download/subdx-dl" && \
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/subdx-dl && \
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

In Windows:

$dir = "$env:APPDATA\subdx-dl"; mkdir -Force $dir; `
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://github.com/Spheres-cu/subdx-dl/releases/latest/download/subdx-dl.exe" -OutFile "$dir\subdx-dl.exe"; `
$path = [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", "User"); `
if ($path -notlike "*$dir*") { [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", "$path;$dir", "User") }; `
Write-Host "Added to PATH. Restart terminal for changes to take effect."

Special case installing on Termux (Android) for first time

pkg upgrade
pkg install python-lxml
pkg install python-psutil
pip install -U subdx-dl

For testing use a virtual env and install it there

For linux:

mkdir subdx
python3 -m venv subdx
source subdx/bin/activate
git clone https://github.com/Spheres-cu/subdx-dl.git
cd subdx-dl
pip install -e .

For Windows:

mkdir subdx
python -m venv subdx
.\subdx\Scripts\activate
git clone https://github.com/Spheres-cu/subdx-dl.git
cd subdx-dl
pip install -e .

Usage

usage: sdx-dl [-h or --help] [optional arguments] search

positional arguments:

search                  file, directory or movie/series title or IMDB Id to retrieve subtitles

optional arguments:

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --quiet, -q           No verbose mode
  --verbose, -v         Be in verbose mode
  --force, -f           override existing file
  --no-choose, -nc      No Choose sub manually
  --no-filter, -nf      Do not filter search results
  --nlines [], -nl []   Show nl(5,10,15,20) availables records per screen. Default 10 records
  --lang [], -l []      Show messages in language es or en
  --version, -V         Show program version
  --check-version, -cv  Check for new version

Download:
  --path PATH, -p PATH  Path to download subtitles
  --proxy x, -x x       Set a http(s) proxy(x) connection

Search by:
  --Season, -S          Search by Season
  --kword kw, -k kw     Add keywords to search among subtitles descriptions
  --title t, -t t       Set the title to search
  --imdb, -i            Search first for the IMDB id or title
  --SubX, -sx           Search using SubX API

Config:
  --view-config, -vc    View config file
  --save-config, -sc    Save options to config file
  --load-config, -lc    Load config file options
  --config [o], -c [o]  Save an option[o] to config file
  --reset [o], -r [o]   Reset an option[o] in the config file

Bypasser:
  --bypass [o], -b [o]  Run bypass with options [force, manual]
  --conf-bypass, -cb    Config bypass options

Examples

Search a single TV-Show by: Title, Season number or simple show name:

sdx-dl "Abbott Elementary S04E01"

sdx-dl "Abbott Elementary 04x01"

sdx-dl "Abbott Elementary"

or search for complete Season:

sdx-dl -S "Abbott Elementary S04E01"

Search for a Movie by Title, Year or simple title, even by IMDB ID:

sdx-dl "Deadpool and Wolverine 2024"

sdx-dl "Deadpool 3"

sdx-dl tt6263850

Search by a file reference:

sdx-dl Harold.and.the.Purple.Crayon.2024.720p.AMZN.WEBRip.800MB.x264-GalaxyRG.mkv

_Search first for the IMDB ID or correct tv show Title if don't know they name or it's in another language:

sdx-dl --imdb "Los Caza fantasmas"

sdx-dl -i "Duna S1E3"

• IMDB search:

You need a TMDB API key for IMDb searches

See in the wiki page: TMDB API key

Config options

With config file arguments you can save some options for use any time, thats options are: quiet, verbose, force, no_choose, no_filter, nlines, path, proxy, Season, imdb, lang, SubX.

The arguments for settings this options are:

--view-config, -vc to view what config you have saved.

--save-config, -sc this argument can save all allowed options you pass in search session, keeping the options already saved, merging, with preferer the new passed options.

--config, -c with this argument you can save an option to the config file. The options to save always be the allowed one.

--reset, -r opposite to --config, -c this argument simply reset an option.

--load-config, -lc this is for load all saved options and run the search with they. If you pass some others options those will merged, maintaining preference over the loaded options.

Configure bypass

• For the bypass methods see wiki: Configure the bypass

Tips

• Always try to search with Title, Year or season number for better results.

• Search by filename reference.

  Search in this way have advantage because the results are filtered and ordered by the metadata of the filename (e.g.: 1080p, Web, Blu-ray, DDP5.1., Atmos, PSA, etc.).

• Try to pass the IMDB ID of the movie or TV Show.

• Pass keywords (--kword, -k "<str1 str2 str3 ...>") of the subtitle you are searching for better ordered results.

• If the search not found any records by a single chapter number (exe. S01E02) try search by the complete Seasson with --Seasson, -S parameter.

• If you don't wanna filter the search results for a better match and, instead, improved response time use --no-filter, -nf argument.

• Sometimes our display is a little tiny and the amount of results don't fix well, a way to fix that is using the --nlines, -nl argument with an amount of records who fix in the screen size.

• Very important!: You need to be installed some rar decompression tool for example: unrar (preferred), unar, 7zip or bsdtar. Otherwise, subtitle file will do not decompress.

Some Captures

Performing search:

• Navigable searches results:
• Subtitle description:
• User comments: