S3YED 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