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Please, go right ahead and grab one of those dumps to see how useful they really are. It’s just a list of subtitles with download links. > But I suspect your

Please, go right ahead and grab one of those dumps to see how useful they really are. It’s just a list of subtitles with download links. > But I suspect your comment like many others are from users who don't even really use OpenSubtitles often/ever. I suspect your comment is a whole load of projection.

infecto 3y ago
If you are going to disagree with my opinion than please disprove what I said instead of dismissing it as projection. I use OpenSubtitles a lot. You can still freely download subtitles, but their will now be limits on the new REST Api they build. You could in theory scrape the site. You can jump on and download things freely. There might be full dumps including the subtitle text itself out there, I would guess nobody cares given the community around it but thats just a guess. The move is from I understood over the past year to 1) Deprecate the old hard to maintain API 2) Get applications that are using OpenSubtitles to either introduce a OpenSubtitles link in their app or to work with OpenSubtitles to pay for direct access. 3) Help support continued work on both the site and the API. The new daily usage limits against the API still allow unauthenticated users from using the API, downloads are limited to 5 a day per IP. Authenticated users but non-paying get a bump up from that, and paying (VIP) users get 1k per day. Is it change from the old API? Yes but my impression is the core user base are happy to support. It costs money to maintain the entire system and you can still download subtitles without signing up. The data is still freely available but the transport, API, has new limitations. Do you use the OpenSubtitles API or website?
- CRConrad 3y ago
  What you said had been disproven in this discussion hours before you said it.
  - infecto 3y ago
    Then tell me what was disproven? I am only sharing my insight a user.

infecto 3y ago

If you are going to disagree with my opinion than please disprove what I said instead of dismissing it as projection. I use OpenSubtitles a lot. You can still freely download subtitles, but their will now be limits on the new REST Api they build. You could in theory scrape the site. You can jump on and download things freely. There might be full dumps including the subtitle text itself out there, I would guess nobody cares given the community around it but thats just a guess. The move is from I understood over the past year to 1) Deprecate the old hard to maintain API 2) Get applications that are using OpenSubtitles to either introduce a OpenSubtitles link in their app or to work with OpenSubtitles to pay for direct access. 3) Help support continued work on both the site and the API. The new daily usage limits against the API still allow unauthenticated users from using the API, downloads are limited to 5 a day per IP. Authenticated users but non-paying get a bump up from that, and paying (VIP) users get 1k per day. Is it change from the old API? Yes but my impression is the core user base are happy to support. It costs money to maintain the entire system and you can still download subtitles without signing up. The data is still freely available but the transport, API, has new limitations. Do you use the OpenSubtitles API or website?

CRConrad 3y ago
What you said had been disproven in this discussion hours before you said it.
- infecto 3y ago
  Then tell me what was disproven? I am only sharing my insight a user.