movever / srt-parser-2-fix

SRT parser that can handle wrong SRT format too (like 00:00:12.682 use dot as separator, which is wrong, it should be a comma)

srt-parser-2

An SRT parser for Javascript.

It reads an .srt file into an array.

Install

npm

npm install srt-parser-2

or yarn

yarn add srt-parser-2

Example

This is a srt format file:

1
00:00:11,544 --> 00:00:12,682
Hello

it would become:

[{
    id: '1',
    startTime: '00:00:11,544',
    startSeconds: 11.544,
    endTime: '00:00:12,682',
    endSeconds: 12.682,
    text: 'Hello'
}]

Enviroment support

Since it only process text,
it should work in both Browser and Node.js enviroment

Usage

let srt = `
1
00:00:11,544 --> 00:00:12,682
Hello
`;

import srtParser2 from "srt-parser-2";
var parser = new srtParser2();
var srt_array = parser.fromSrt(srt);
console.log(srt_array);

// turn array back to SRT string.
var srt_string = parser.toSrt(srt_array);
console.log(srt_string);

You can run this example using node example/1.Comma.js

CLI

npx srt-parser-2 -i input.srt -o output.json --minify

Options:

Option	Required	Default
--input or -i	Yes
--output or -o	No	output.json
--minify	No	false

License

MIT

Why?

Why this one special? There are plently SRT parser on npm:

• subtitles-parser
• subtitles-parser-vtt
• subtitle
• srt

What's wrong with them?

Nothing wrong.
All of them can handle this format:

1
00:00:11,544 --> 00:00:12,682
Hello

But I want to handle format like these:

00:00:11.544

This is wrong format, it use period as separator

Or this:

00:00:11,5440

This is also wrong format, millisecond has 4 digit (should be 3)

Or this:

1:00:11,5

Similiar, hour & millisecond is only 1 digit (wrong)

Or this

00:00:00.05

etc

Format Support

Format	Other parser	srt-parser-2	srt-parser-2 would turn this into
00:00:01,544	Yes ✅	Yes ✅	00:00:01,544
00:00:01.544	❓ Yes for some of them	Yes ✅	00:00:01,544
00:00:01.54	❓ Yes for some of them	Yes ✅	00:00:01,544
00:00:00.3333	No ❌	Yes ✅	00:00:00,333
00:00:00.3	No ❌	Yes ✅	00:00:00,300
1:2:3.4	No ❌	Yes ✅	01:02:03,400

Basic principle:

1. If hour,minute,second is shorter than 2 digit, pad start with "0", if longer than 2 digit, only save first 2 digit.
2. Millisecond is the same, but it's 3 digit.
3. Seperator can be .(periods) or ,(comma), periods(incorrect) will be replace with comma(correct)

Conclusion

1. Support more time format (even wrong format)
2. Have extensive test