webvtt-py 0.1

WebVTT reader, writer and segmenter

webvtt-py is a Python module for reading/writing WebVTT caption files. It also features caption segmentation useful when captioning HLS videos.

Usage

from webvtt import WebVTT

webvtt = WebVTT().read('captions.vtt')
for c in webvtt.captions:
    print(c.start)
    print(c.end)
    print(c.text)

Segmenting for HLS

from webvtt import WebVTTSegmenter

WebVTTSegmenter().segment('captions.vtt', 'output/path')

Converting SRT captions

from webvtt import WebVTT

webvtt = WebVTT().from_srt('captions.srt')
webvtt.save()