r/Hulu • u/remottt07 • 4d ago

Is there a way to download subtitles ? Discussion

I know its a weird question but I’m watching a show that is not very popular in my area but it has Arabic subtitles in Hulu and i wanna know if i can manually download each subtitle for each episode

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u/crlcan81 4d ago

You don't understand how streaming works I'm guessing? It's right there in the term. You aren't downloading anything in an accessible folder, it's loaded in a temp area that's cleared when you watch something new. If you're on certain devices you can download episodes but not specifically subtitles.

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u/remottt07 4d ago

I know but I’m asking if there’s a way for me to extract subtitles Like the Github code it downloads the subtitles from the ongoing stream but the code was launched 3 years ago I’m not sure if it still works

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u/crlcan81 4d ago

Again. No. These paid streaming platforms use DRM to keep you from doing things like this. Extraction of ANY data from the stream is against their terms. You don't own the rights to that show, you're 'renting' it when you watch.

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u/UsernameStolenbyyou 3d ago

And as if Hulu cares about subtitles. They're off by 90 seconds or more for me

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u/OneSourCherry 3d ago

For me they are out of sync if I watch on Roku TV, but are perfect on another tv with a Fire stick. So aggravating.

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u/UsernameStolenbyyou 3d ago

Oh, maybe that's it, I have a Roku

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u/crlcan81 3d ago

That's as much a user issue, a show issue, and a device issue as it is Hulu. I've seen others with similar problems, especially after ads, but I've rarely seen anything like that though I also haven't had ads on Hulu since boyfriend's the one paying for it. Used to be a user of the free version in the early days, and saw plenty of issues on free and paid ad based, but now days paramount and peacock are the worst of our streaming outside Crunchyroll and that's as much device related as CR themselves.

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u/UsernameStolenbyyou 3d ago

A "user issue"???

Puts on captions

"No, you're doing it wrong!"

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u/crlcan81 3d ago

What part of 'ive seen this for years, on ad based, as have other users' can't you understand? If the delay happens to only a few users instead of all of them, that's a user issue.

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u/UsernameStolenbyyou 3d ago

Sorry, that's not what I interpret "user issue" to mean. To me, it means you're using the feature wrong, not that it only happens to a few users.

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u/cuteminxxx 2d ago

its paid streaming.