api.opensubtitles.org will be deprecated on 2024-01-01

[milahu]

i just got this email

OpenSubtitles.org is undergoing a transformation, retiring the original API by the end of 2023

Exciting news! OpenSubtitles.org is undergoing a transformation, retiring the original API by the end of 2023. Fear not, as this paves the way for the advanced OpenSubtitles.com REST API. We also understand, in some scenarios there is no way to use new API yet, so original API will be available from New Year only for VIP Users.

so this will stop working in 7 weeks

subdl/subdl.py

Line 26 in 0ac57a8

OSDB_SERVER_URI = "https://api.opensubtitles.org/xml-rpc"

new api: https://www.opensubtitles.com/docs/api/html/index.htm

one nice thing about the move from .org to .com is that .com has all subtitles in utf8 encoding
it will be interesting, how many subs will be broken, because guessing the encoding is not trivial, see #37

[arximboldi]

@milahu did you find an alternative to subdl with the updated API? subdl was the best too for downloading subs and I haven't found a good alternative yet. "Find subtitles" in smplayer sometimes works but subdl had more options for stubborn files...

[NicolasWebDev]

https://github.com/Diaoul/subliminal is now working with opensubtitles and other providers.

[arximboldi]

Amazing, thanks @NicolasWebDev !

[milahu450]

did you find an alternative to subdl with the updated API?

i wrote my own server and client : )
see my opensubtitles-scraper