5,719,123 subtitles from opensubtitles.org

Wanted to search the text of every subtitle

https://files.catbox.moe/lrmid1.torrent

Bless the data hoarders

Finally: ClosedSubtitles

EDIT: Also, MAN, a lot of straight up bootlicking in this thread. What the fuck kind of pirates are you? lmao

So much for “open”

Jesus, reading comprehension is hard to come by eh? How have so many people struggled to actually read this?

They aren't requiring payment, nor are they requiring you to sign in or create an account.

They are transitioning from an old API to a new one. The new API (and the site itself) is ad supported and rate limited; 5 downloads per day unauthenticated, double that for a free account, or 'VIP' accounts have higher limits and no ads.

It's not authenticated access only, nor is it paid access only.

That doesn’t sound very open to me

How... how could you possibly start trying to profit off of a major resource for accessibility to movies. That's scummier than scummy. Fuck you OpenSubtitles, you're the fucking Elon Musk and Steve Huffman of deaf people everywhere. Get absolutely fucked.

ha, i love how their reasoning tried to not point out the obvious: money

upgrade to vip for a better user experience! (cuz we made the other one shitty on purpose cuz money)

im not faulting them for charging a price for a service, just dont blow smoke up my ass for why youre doin it.

See, I get when YouTube or some such are asking for some kind of payment, since transcoding and delivering all those large video files is expensive as fuck. Yet, Open subtitles delivers text. Fucking. Text. The rest is done for them for free by the users. No, folks. You ain't getting any money.

My wife is deaf, and I take this VERY fucking personally. This is predatory to an already (unfortunately) overlooked demographic of movie lovers, I will absolutely rally against this bullshit.

If you're looking for an alternative, I've had luck with https://subscene.com/

I don't really know what the best or most popular website is because this one has never really led me astray. That said, I don't need to use them too often, so your mileage may vary.

Finally, even OpenSubtitles gets enshittified.

Subscene still exists, fortunately

Subtitles are the easiest material to pirate :) I'm sure they don't have a copyright either.

THE BALLS TO EVEN OFFER A "BLACK FRIDAY" DEAL, HOLY FUCK

Excellent so now they'll be paying volunteers for their work!

*its previous API

man, they've change so much since 2017, where they were giving VIP membership out for free as a Christmas gift. Now they're making it so can't access the API for free anymore as a Christmas gift to themselves lmao

Why would you pirate a movie and then pay for subtitles? Makes no sense.

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As far as I understand they are shutting down open subtitles.org API, but the jellyfin plugin uses the .com version. The free account there is limited to 20 downloads per day via API

I guess this would also affect stremio's opensubtitles addons

oh fuck no, this kills qnapi and vlsub, doesn't it?

But they offer a new API. Any disadvantages with the new one?

ClosedCaptions.com

Wait so….. Access is now closed for kodi access on non paying members?

Unless they use the website and manually download them?

Any alternatives? I myself havent seen one so I dunno if there is something to migrate to.

Wht happens when you have a nated IP?

For whatever reason, the opensubtitles.com plugin for Kodi still doesn’t require login and still appears to download whatever I need.

For now.

edit: after checking their “support us” page, it appears it’s because of the “anonymous” tier, limited to 10 dls per day.

Good enough for me.

bye bye opensubtitles, pirates aint paying for user generated content. We'll find a new platform.