0.5.1 (30-05-2024)

• Added voice span support (#55)
• Extended from_buffer support to allow BytesIO and also other format conversions (#32)
• Fixed save SRT to not include cue tags, thanks to @lilaboc <https://github.com/lilaboc>_ (#56)
• Fixed saved caption to include a line break after the last caption as per standard (#49)

0.5.0 (15-05-2024)

• Added styles support
• Added comments support
• Added from_string
• Added iterate over a slice of captions
• Refactor of the library
• Parser is no longer strict and ignores malformed blocks
• Improved BOM support allowing to keep the BOM or remove it
• Deprecated read_buffer in favor of from_buffer
• Removed support for old versions of Python: 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6

0.4.6 (18-11-2020)

• Add capability to get WebVTT formatted content without an output file, thanks to @DawoudSheraz (#34)
• Add Python 3.9 support

0.4.5 (09-04-2020)

• Fix issue reading buffer

0.4.4 (27-03-2020)

• Allow parsing empty SBV captions, thanks to @ishunyu (#26)
• Fix invalid time cues, thanks to @sontek (#19)
• Enable pytest as test runner, thanks to @sontek (#20)
• Packaging improvements
• Added Python 3.8 support
• Improve parsing empty lines

0.4.3 (22-11-2019)

• Parsing improvements, thanks to @sontek (#18)
• Add support for reading content from a file-like object, thanks to @omerholz (#23)
• Documentation fixes thanks to @sontek (#22) and @netcmcc (#24)

0.4.2 (08-06-2018)

• Renamed and reorganized few of the modules
• Parsing methods are now class methods: read, from_srt and from_sbv
• Improved usability with the addition of shortcuts to avoid instantiating the classes so we can do:

import webvtt

webvtt.read('captions.vtt') # this will return a WebVTT instance

0.4.1 (24-12-2017)

• Support for saving cue identifiers

0.4.0 (18-09-2017)

The main goal of this release is a refactor of the WebVTT parser to be able to parse easier and give support to new features of the format.

New features:

• Support for cue identifiers
• Support for parsing WebVTT captions with comments
• Support for parsing WebVTT captions with Style blocks
• Support for BOM in caption files
• Added method to write the captions to an opened file
• Convert WebVTT to SRT format
• Ignore empty captions in SRT format

Other:

• Refactored WebVTT parser

0.3.3 (23-08-2017)

The text for the caption is now returned clean (tags removed). The cue text could contain tags like:

• timestamp tags: <00:19.000>
• class tags: <c.classname>text
• and others...
  Important: It currently removes any tag present in the cue text. For example <b> would be removed.

Also a new attribute is available on captions to retrieve the text without cleaning tags: raw_text