History
0.5.0 (Unreleased)
Added styles support
Added comments support
Added from_string
Added iterate over a slice of captions
Refactor of the library
Improved BOM support allowing to keep the BOM or remove it
Deprecated read_buffer in favor of from_buffer
Removed support for old versions of Python: 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6
0.4.6 (18-11-2020)
Add capability to get WebVTT formatted content without an output file, thanks to @DawoudSheraz (#34)
Add Python 3.9 support
0.4.5 (09-04-2020)
Fix issue reading buffer
0.4.4 (27-03-2020)
0.4.3 (22-11-2019)
0.4.2 (08-06-2018)
Renamed and reorganized few of the modules
Parsing methods are now class methods: read, from_srt and from_sbv
Improved usability with the addition of shortcuts to avoid instantiating the classes so we can do:
import webvtt
webvtt.read(‘captions.vtt’) # this will return a WebVTT instance
0.4.1 (24-12-2017)
Support for saving cue identifiers
0.4.0 (18-09-2017)
The main goal of this release is a refactor of the WebVTT parser to be able to parse easier and give support to new features of the format.
New features:
Support for cue identifiers
Support for parsing WebVTT captions with comments
Support for parsing WebVTT captions with Style blocks
Support for BOM in caption files
Added method to write the captions to an opened file
Convert WebVTT to SRT format
Ignore empty captions in SRT format
Other:
Refactored WebVTT parser
0.3.3 (23-08-2017)
The text for the caption is now returned clean (tags removed). The cue text could contain tags like: * timestamp tags: <00:19.000> * class tags: <c.classname>text</c> * and others… Important: It currently removes any tag present in the cue text. For example <b> would be removed.
Also a new attribute is available on captions to retrieve the text without cleaning tags: raw_text
0.3.2 (11-08-2017)
The goal of this release if to allow the WebVTT parser to be able to read caption files that contain metadata headers that extend to more than one line.
0.3.1 (08-08-2017)
Made hours in WebVTT parser optional as per specs.
Added support to parse WebVTT files that contain metadata headers.
0.3.0 (02-06-2016)
New features:
Added support for YouTube SBV captions.
Added easy iteration to WebVTT class.
New CLI command for segmenting captions for HLS.
Other:
Improved parsers to reuse functionality.
Added an exception for invalid timestamps in captions.
Added an exception when saving without a filename.
0.2.0 (23-05-2016)
Refactor of the main module and parsers.
0.1.0 (20-05-2016)
This module is released with the following initial features:
Read/Edit/Write WebVTT captions.
Read SRT captions and convert to WebVTT.
Segment WebVTT files for captioning HLS video.