vtt_to_srt2

Convert vtt files to srt subtitle format

For Python 2.x you can get version for Python 3.x here

Docs

https://jsonzilla.github.io/vtt_to_srt2/

Installation

pip install vtt_to_srt2

python -m pip install vtt_to_srt2

Usage from terminal

usage: vtt_to_srt [-h] [-r] [-e ENCODING] [-rf] pathname

Convert vtt files to srt files

positional arguments:
  pathname              a file or directory with files to be converted

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -r, --recursive       walk path recursively
  -e ENCODING, --encoding ENCODING
                        encoding format for input and output files
  -rf, --remove_format  remove the format tags like bold & italic from output files

Usage as a lib

Convert vtt file

from vtt_to_srt.vtt_to_srt import ConvertFile

convert_file = ConvertFile("input_utf8.vtt", "utf-8")
convert_file.convert()

Recursively convert all vtt files in directory

from vtt_to_srt.vtt_to_srt import ConvertDirectories

recursive = False
convert_file = ConvertDirectories(".", recursive, "utf-8")
convert_file.convert()

Manual build

Generate wheel

python -m pip install --upgrade setuptools wheel build
python -m build

Generate documentation

Generate documentation

python -m pip install pdoc3
pdoc --html vtt_to_srt/vtt_to_srt.py -o docs
mv docs/vtt_to_srt.html docs/index.html
rm -rm docs/vtt_to_srt