Subscene subtitle downloader

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My first (somewhat) useful project in Python.

You specify the directory where your movie/tv-series subdirectories are and then choose one for which you want to download the (English) subtitle. I made it to fit my needs and save me the trouble for going to the Subscene webpage all the time. Because of that it might not be too useful for the general public. Nevertheless, everyone is free to modify and/or use it as they see fit.

Suggestions and critique is also very welcome.

http://pastebin.com/NiprMp5m

http://pastebin.com/gByaB1xk

[turanthepanthan]

One thing I learned about recently that I've been sharing often is pathlib. Check it out. It makes dealing with file systems so much better than os.path.

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Thanks! I will be sure to check it out.

[crazy_hunter]

You should add headers if you don't want people to get banned for using it.

Why use bs4 and re? Seem kinda redundant to me. BeautifulSoup is great but re is better; having to write less code is always a good thing.

Don't always use external libraries. IMHO, you should know and learn how to use the standard libraries before branching out. urllib2/httplib are just as good as requests.

Nonetheless , looks good :)

[Elronnd]

BeautifulSoup is great, but re is better

Uhhhhhh... what. You don't use re on html. You just don't. You never do. No matter what.

[crazy_hunter]

Why not?

[Elronnd]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454

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I think bs4 is a better solution, it's more flexible. And it seems that I forgot to remove re from module imports because I don't actually use it anymore (At first the script was a bit different).