webvtt-py 0.2.0

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.

Requires Python 3.3+.

Documentation is available at http://webvtt-py.readthedocs.io.

Installation

$ pip install webvtt-py

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()

License

Licensed under the MIT License.