OpenSubtitles.org is shutting down it's previous API. Now only authenticated access allowed.

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
- That only solves half the issue. The other half is everything released after the change.
  
  They just need a paid account and they can keep appending to it.
  "Open"subtitles has like a 1k dowload/day limit, which should cover most media.
- you da mvp!
  
  Thanks! But I just found the former redditor/data hoarder who did all the real work.
- The link is not loading

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”
- OpenWalletsSubtitles
- Hey now, I'm sure they'll still gladly accept free labor for subtitle submissions!

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.
- "It's not paid, you can pay by watching ads and get a laughable amount of downloads per day for free!"
  Sometimes you have to cycle through many subtitles to find the right one. They don't even produce them.
  In the era of VPN, many users share the same IP too. You can reach the limit before downloading anything.
  
  In the era of VPN, many users share the same IP too. You can reach the limit before downloading anything.
  Then create a free account and it's no longer limited by ip and you get double the anonymous limit.
  
  How many subs do you download at a time??
  Juat spread it out or cough up some cash ... >_>
  
  "They don't even produce them"
  Hosting ain't free, son.
- It doesn’t say any of that information about non-VIP accounts, go read it yourself, and the information you quoted about anonymous accounts is also wrong.
  edit: I won’t be receiving any replies from this commenter. If anyone wants to say I’m wrong, feel free to provide a screenshot from the blogpost proving it.
  
  Since you deleted the comment I replied to:
  There's six big ass bold numbered paragraphs detailing the differences between the 'VIP' (paid) users and 'non-VIP' (free) users.
  There's also a link to the REST API docs where the first thing it details is exactly how authentication is handled. Specifically: an application looking to interface with opensubtitles will have an api key embedded by its developer and without logging in further will have 5 free downloads/day, that can then be expanded by the end user logging in with their (free or VIP) account.
  That documentation lists anonymous accounts (not signed in as a specific user) as rated limited to 5/day. That doubles to 10 for signed in (but still free) users and grows further with VIP.
  
  The OP doesn't, but the REST API Docs say:
  Your consumer can query the API on its own, and download 5 subtitles per IP's per 24 hours, but a user must be authenticated to download more. Users will then be able to download as many subtitles as their ranks allows, from 10 as simple signed up user, to 1000 for VIP user.
  https://opensubtitles.stoplight.io/docs/opensubtitles-api/e3750fd63a100-getting-started
  Though that's not fully 'unauthenticated', as the above is discussing the use of a developer API key. Though that would be built into whatever app is being used.

That doesn’t sound very open to me
- Title is a bit misleading. Starting with 2024 the site will be moving to a new API. The payment is too be able to continue to use the old API a while longer (for software that can't be changed yet).
  
  Additionally, it’s just a limit on how much you can download. You can still get 10 subtitles a day for free.
  Your consumer can query the API on its own, and download 5 subtitles per IP's per 24 hours, but a user must be authenticated to download more. Users will then be able to download as many subtitles as their ranks allows, from 10 as simple signed up user, to 1000 for VIP user.
  
  Thank you

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.
- I swear I read a thread here (on lemmy) recently that one of these subtitle sites was embedding ads in the subtitles. Now that takes things even further than scummier in my opinion, especially since subtitles are for availability.
  
  I mean I've been a pirate for a WHILE and you generally do see ads on opensubtitles subs. Generally it's opensubtitles saying you can advertise with them, or credits for subtitles that stay on the screen for way too long, but this has been a thing forever now, I don't recall a time when this wasn't done.
  I don't think I can take the moral high ground on it seeing as...well, I am a pirate lol. We out here doing our best to stay afloat, opensubtitles included.
  
  Correct. They now embed ads directly into the subtitles. There is a python program to strip those ads out, but doesn't work with Plex directly. It can be setup with bazarr, but that requires sonarr and or radar...
- Their website is still free and every legal way to watch movies already includes subtitles.
  
  Oh, no harm done then, lets keep allowing every online resource to implement shitty money grabbing tactics
  
  nark
  
  Do they include subtitles for every language?

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.
- I'm actually faulting them for trying to make money off a crowdsourced service. They didn't write the damn subtitles.
  
  Also, wrong fucking audience. The people using this are pirating.... what do they think is going to happen when they put a paywall in front 😂
  
  .....make money off a crowdsourced service. They didn't write the damn subtitles.
  Ah the reddit formula
  
  This will just create new competition for them. I have been watching anime for several years and never once had to go through opensubtitles. Most releases now have the subtitles integrated so what is the value they bring to the whole thing?
  Edit: I just realized I'm replying the one an only db0, you are the best, cheers!
  
  i didnt know that! fuuuuuck those peoples

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.
- I also choose this guy's deaf wife
- I'm not deaf but I fucking love subtitles.
  There's a lot of mumbly actors out there.
- My wife is deaf. So subtitles are a deal breaker for any media implementation I implement.
  That is why I pay for open subtitles. I get no ads, continued access after this change and I'm helping maintain a service we use daily.
  
  That is why I pay for open subtitles
  Lost me right here. Personally I'm not ever going to pay for a service where the work done by volunteer users, for free, is filling some random person's pockets. An argument can't even be made a la RedHat here - there's literally no value being added to the volunteers' work by OpenSubtitles...
  OpenSubtitles literally has pulled a shXtter here IMO
  
  you know.... most companies include subs in the DVD or file.
  For free.
  You're paying for a service that should be the universal standard.
- Accessibility features are already scarce and paywalling them seems to be a trend that's going on, like how reddit closed it's API so blind users couldn't even use it anymore. The /r/blind subreddit needed non-blind mods because their native app doesn't support accessibility.
- Why do you take this personally? Just use opensubtitles.com instead of their old opensubtitles.org?
  They are only changing the old .org API, because they are moving on to their new website and REST API that they've been working on for a while. The new REST API is still free for 5-10 subtitle downloads a day.
  Or you can download directly on the website.

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.
- They all seem to have pretty much the same subs one may have more niche stuff than others but that's about it
- Am I the only one for whom "open"subtitles.org hasn't worked in years? I literally cannot find the download button, like in those okboomer memes. Never used the API. Switched to subscene.com and haven't had problems since.

Finally, even OpenSubtitles gets enshittified.
- Making a burner account isnt that hard and hardly a shittification in my books.
  Just a measure to ensure the free api access is correctly monetized which is a valid reason for a service to me.
  Would you work for free for your workplace without a compensation beyond a $5 bill and a pat on the back at times because your boss felt generous?
  
  Opensubtitles does not create the subtitles, that's done by the community, which is being monetised and sub authors get nothing out of it.
  
  Would you work for free for your workplace without a compensation beyond a $5 bill and a pat on the back at times because your boss felt generous?
  Misleading question. These kinds of communities are volunteer-fed, so you are basically asking me if I would work for free for a charity, which is the point. Things change notoriously when the boss then decides to monetize the entire thing for themself and not for you.

Subscene still exists, fortunately

Subtitles are the easiest material to pirate :) I'm sure they don't have a copyright either.
- Ye, but the problem is the ease of discovery
  
  Yeah probably all integrations are gonna break 😐
  I hate them for injecting embedded ads to subs anyways, so hopefully they ruins the platform more so an alternative can emerge.
- Technically subs are copyrighted as they're usually ripped from official sources. They're selling copyrighted content
  
  @Moonrise2473 even worse: they're selling copyrighted content that they have no license for
  @iso

THE BALLS TO EVEN OFFER A "BLACK FRIDAY" DEAL, HOLY FUCK
- What? Speak up! I didn't hear you.
  
  ^sorry

*its previous API

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

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
- Now they're making it so can't access the API for free anymore
  No, they're not.
  They are switching from the old API to the new API. You can pay to continue using the old one, use the new one for free (max 5 downloads per day), or pay for less-restricted access to the new API.
  
  5 downloads a day is pretty generous as I used them four times in my life for my pirated movies.

Why would you pirate a movie and then pay for subtitles? Makes no sense.
- And decent pirated movies/TV shows will already come with the subtitles embedded in the video container nowadays, which is great.
  
  True, but quite often the subtitles are in vobsub which sucks.
- even better, pirate a movie, then pay to play the subtitles roulette where you download 30 identical files that differ only on the timing
- Many pirates will pay for newsgroup access. People also pay for hard drive space, power for servers, hardware, etc. Pirating doesn't mean people are never paying for anything. That said, I won't pay for subtitles. I'll just wait til the community figures something else out.

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
- People are getting the their pitchforks out but I think they are misunderstanding. Opensubtitles.ORG is being replaced by opensubtitles.COM. They just are stopping access to the ORG website. I have already migrated to the COM website for a while. And a 20 downloads/a day limit for free users is very reasonable.
  
  Is it? It's a simple text file, the download costs them close to nothing. 20 subtitles per day is laughable, especially because other people make the subtitles.
  
  Do you get ads in the subtitles though?
  "Subtitles downloaded by VIP members are free from any embedded ads, offering a cleaner viewing experience."
  I haven't used opensubtitles much but have been considering setting up bazarr, using a source that embeds ads in subtitles would be a non starter for me.
  I would even be totally willing to pay for increased download limits but not if it means supporting putting ads in the free subtitles.

I guess this would also affect stremio's opensubtitles addons
- Good thing Stremio has other options... And most media have their own embedded subtitles, which ends up being the best case scenario.
  What I don't recall is if we can login in Open Subtitles 🤔
  
  We can't and the addon doesn't seem to be open source, I could modify it to let us login

But they offer a new API. Any disadvantages with the new one?
- I didn't see anything about it being free. I also didn't pick up on whether or not it was moving behind a paywall, just that you could buy a vip subscription for 20% off
  
  I think in the email they sent out they mentioned that each IP would be able to download 5 per 24 hours and "registered users" 10 per 24 hours. Paid members would be restricted to 1,000 per 24 hours.
  It's 15 bucks a year for VIP, if I understood it correctly, then I am of the opinion there is nothing here to get mad about for "regular users".
  
  Your consumer can query the API on its own, and download 5 subtitles per IP's per 24 hours, but a user must be authenticated to download more. Users will then be able to download as many subtitles as their ranks allows, from 10 as simple signed up user, to 1000 for VIP user.
  https://opensubtitles.stoplight.io/docs/opensubtitles-api/e3750fd63a100-getting-started

oh fuck no, this kills qnapi and vlsub, doesn't it?
- I'm afraid yes. I use their API to automatically download subs in jellyfin and I guess I'm gonna lose that too :(
  
  Shit I just started using Jellyfin. How do I do this?
- And Plex's on-demand subtitle download.
  
  Plex uses .com for sure. .org has been deprecated for a while.

ClosedCaptions.com

Wait so….. Access is now closed for kodi access on non paying members?
Unless they use the website and manually download them?
- Ugh damnit
  
  Idk where you read that. In the article, if you click to read about their new REST API:
  Your consumer can query the API on its own, and download 5 subtitles per IP's per 24 hours, but a user must be authenticated to download more. Users will then be able to download as many subtitles as their ranks allows, from 10 as simple signed up user, to 1000 for VIP user.
- No.
  A) old API doesn't shutdown till end of year.
  B) new API is 5 free downloads/day. 10 if you create a free account. More if you buy VIP.
  
  Wow…at least it’s……something??
  I wonder if this will cause an uptick with subscene API users

Any alternatives? I myself havent seen one so I dunno if there is something to migrate to.
- https://subscene.com/
  
  much appreciated

Wht happens when you have a nated IP?
- University dorms certainly never needed subtitles!
  
  My isp does this

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.
- Try actually reading the article.
  
  I did, it includes none of the information you posted regarding non-VIP accounts.

- This transition aims to pave the way for a more advanced and streamlined experience with the introduction of the new REST API on OpenSubtitles.com
  You didn't even took the time to read the first lines

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