SRT-DEDUPLICATE(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to srt-deduplicate — it's the SRT subtitle processing tool, and it's literally here to make your subtitles stop saying the same thing twice 💅 this whole page is the man page for it, and it lives in the User Commands section, iykyk.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

here's the vibe — usage, fr fr:

usage: srt deduplicate [-h] [--input FILE] [--output FILE] [--inplace]
       [--no-strict] [--debug] [--ignore-parsing-errors]
       [--encoding ENCODING] [-t MILLISECONDS]

and what it does? Deduplicate repeated subtitles. that's it, that's the whole main character moment. it finds the duplicates and it removes them. iconic. ✨

🎀 options:

• -h, --help — shows you this help message and then dips. show this help message and exit, periodt.
• --input FILE, -i FILE — the file to process, bestie. and lowkey if you don't give it one, it defaults to stdin. (default: stdin)
• --output FILE, -o FILE — the file it writes to. no file? no problem, it defaults to stdout. (default: stdout)
• --inplace, -p — modify file in place. it just goes in and edits the file itself, no separate output file needed 🫶
• --no-strict — allow blank lines in output. and listen, the manpage is being so real about this: your media player may explode 😭 so like, know what you're doing.
• --debug — enable debug logging. turn it on when you wanna see everything that's happening 🦋
• --ignore-parsing-errors, -c — try to keep going, even if there are parsing errors. it's giving resilience, it's giving "we move" ✨
• --encoding ENCODING, -e ENCODING — the encoding to read/write files in. (default: utf8) 💜
• -t MILLISECONDS, --ms MILLISECONDS — how many milliseconds distance a subtitle start time must be within of another to be considered a duplicate. (default: 5000ms) so basically the closeness threshold, and yeah it's in ms ⭐

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🧚 examples:

Remove duplicated subtitles within 5 seconds of each other

$ srt deduplicate -i duplicated.srt

Remove duplicated subtitles within 500 milliseconds of each other

$ srt deduplicate -t 500 -i duplicated.srt

Remove duplicated subtitles regardless of temporal proximity

$ srt deduplicate -t 0 -i duplicated.srt

💀 heads up bestie — that --no-strict flag allowing blank lines? the manpage straight up says your media player may explode. so like, dramatic but also fr fr.

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and that's the whole page, we ate and left no crumbs 👑 this was srt-deduplicate version 3.5.3, from back in June 2023 🌈 thanks for reading, ily, go dedupe something 💖🎀🌸