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If you want a GUI to present you with all subtitles options and let you choose which to download, find the opt_selection_mode = 'default' setting and change it to 'manual'.

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The ISO codes for each language supported by are available on this page (use the code in the first column).

To change the subtitle language, search for opt_languages = and change the language from (English) to (French), or whatever language you want to use.Here's what you may want to change in this file: Navigate to that folder using your file manager and open the OpenSubtitlesDownload.py file with a text editor. Nautilus: ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts.To Configure OpenSubtitlesDownload.py, you'll need to open it with a text editor.

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These are optional of course, and you can use it directly to automatically download subtitles using its default settings. Since it's running as a file manager script, without any arguments, you'll need to modify the script if you want to change some of its settings, like enabling the GUI, changing the subtitles language, and so on. Mv OpenSubtitlesDownload.py ~/.config/caja/scripts/Ĭhmod u+x ~/.config/caja/scripts/OpenSubtitlesDownload.py

Caja (default MATE file manager): mkdir -p ~/.config/caja/scripts.

Mv OpenSubtitlesDownload.py ~/.local/share/nemo/scripts/Ĭhmod u+x ~/.local/share/nemo/scripts/OpenSubtitlesDownload.py

Nemo (default Cinnamon file manager): mkdir -p ~/.local/share/nemo/scripts.

Mv OpenSubtitlesDownload.py ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/Ĭhmod u+x ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/OpenSubtitlesDownload.py

Nautilus (default Gnome, Unity and Solus OS file manager): mkdir -p ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts.

Use the commands below to move the downloaded OpenSubtitlesDownload.py script to the file manager scripts folder and make it executable (use the commands for your current file manager - Nautilus, Nemo or Caja): Now you can download the OpenSubtitlesDownload.py script from GitHub:ģ.

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In Debian, Ubuntu, or Linux Mint, install gzip, wget and zenity using this command:Ģ. The instructions below assume you already have Python (both Python 2 and 3 will do it), as well as ps and grep available. You'll need to install gzip, wget and zenity before using OpenSubtitlesDownload.py. Install the dependencies required by OpenSubtitlesDownload.py To install OpenSubtitlesDownload.py as a Nautilus, Nemo or Caja script, see the instructions below.ġ. This is OpenSubtitlesDownload.py used as a Nautilus script: Thanks to this you'll be able to right click (context menu) one or multiple video files in your file manager, select Scripts > OpenSubtitlesDownload.py and the script will search for and download subtitles from for your video files.

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The instructions below explain how to install OpenSubtitlesDownload.py as a script for Caja, Nemo or Nautilus file managers. Installing and using OpenSubtitlesDownload.py as a Nautilus, Nemo or Caja script For VIP users it's 1000 subtitles per day, but OpenSubtitlesDownload.py does not allow logging it to an OpenSubtitles account and thus, you can't take advantage of a VIP account while using this tool. In case you encounter errors when downloading a large number of subtitles, you should be aware that OpenSubtitles has a daily subtitle download limit (it appears it was 200 subtitles downloads / day a while back, I'm not sure if it changed). The Python tool does not yet support downloading subtitles for movies within a directory recursively, but this is a planned feature. Possibility to append the language code to the file name (ex: movie_en.srt). Option to rename downloaded subtitles to match source video file.Option to download subtitles automatically if only one is available, choose the one you want otherwise.Other OpenSubtitlesDownload.py features include: The optional graphical user interface (uses Zenity for Gnome and Kdialog for KDE) can display multiple subtitle matches and by digging into its settings you can enable the display of some extra information, like the subtitles download count, rating, language, and more. OpenSubtitlesDownload.py has quite a few cool features, including support for more than 60 languages, and it can query both multiple subtitle languages and videos in the same time (so it supports mass subtitle search and download). In case no match is found, it then tries to perform a search based on the video file name, although such subtitles may not always be in sync. The Python script searches for subtitles on using the video hash sum to find exact matches, and thus avoid out of sync subtitles.

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