srt-subtitles

File format

1
00:00:01,500 --> 00:00:04,000
This is the subtitle text
                             ← lege regel
2
00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,500
Line one
Line two                      ← meerdere regels toegestaan

• Sequentiële nummers (1, 2, 3...)
• Timestamps: HH:MM:SS,mmm --> HH:MM:SS,mmm
• Tekst: plain text, kan <i>, <b>, <font> HTML-tags bevatten
• Blokken gescheiden door lege regel (\n\n)

How to read

SRT is plain text — no converter needed.

# From Drive
gog drive download <FILE_ID> --out /tmp/sub.srt && cat /tmp/sub.srt

# Local file
cat file.srt
read_file path="file.srt"

Parsed output (script)

cat file.srt | python3 scripts/parse-srt.py

Returns JSON array:

[
  {"seq": 1, "start": "00:00:01,500", "end": "00:00:04,000", "text": "Hello"},
  {"seq": 2, "start": "00:00:05,000", "end": "00:00:08,500", "text": "Line one\\nLine two"}
]

Use cases

• Extract text from video subtitles for search/indexing
• Translate subtitles (feed parsed text to LLM)
• Repurpose subtitle text for content
• Transcript extraction from video content in Drive===ME:srt-subtitles