DramaFever Subtitle Ripper (DFRip)

Easily download subtitle files for your favorite shows from DramaFever. You can either keep them in the original TTML format or convert them to the more commonly used SRT subtitle format.

Requirements

• Python 2 or 3
• requests
• BeautifulSoup 4

You can download and install these modules from PyPi with pip:

pip install requests
pip install beautifulsoup4

or

pip install -r requirements.txt

or by going to the respective module's website.

Usage

usage: dfrip.py [-h] [-f {srt,ttml,xml}] [-o FILENAME] [-v] SERIES EPISODE
Download subtitles from DramaFever and convert them into TTML or SRT.

positional arguments:
  SERIES                the ID of the series (usually four-digit number)
  EPISODE               the number of the episode

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -f {srt,ttml,xml}, --format {srt,ttml,xml}
                        the format the subtitles will be saved in (default:
                        xml)
  -o FILENAME, --out FILENAME
                        location of the output file or filename (default: .)
  -v, --verbose         increases output verbosity (default: False)

Examples

Downloading the subtitles for episode 119 of Running Man.

1. Go to DramaFever's Running Man page.
2. You will see the following in your browser's address bar: http://www.dramafever.com/drama/3970/Running_Man/. Copy or remember the show's ID (3970).
3. Execute the following command to download the subtitles as TTML:

./dfrip.py 3970 119

Download the subtitles as SRT:

./dfrip.py 3970 119 -f srt

Download the subtitles to "running_man-119.srt" and show additional infos about the show:

./dfrip.py 3970 119 -v -f srt -o "running_man-119.srt"