jnv · November 20, 2022 16:11 · Dec 1, 2013 · Nov 30, 2013
diff --git a/srt2txt.rb b/srt2txt.rb
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
   txt = line.text.reject do |l|
     if l =~ /^OK/ # OK. et al.
       false
-    elsif l =~ /(\?\.!)$/ # keeps screaming, includes some sounds
+    elsif l =~ /[\?\.!]$/ # keeps screaming, includes some sounds
       false
     else
       l =~ /^[^a-z]*$/ # Reject all-upcase lines to remove sound descriptions

diff --git a/srt2txt.rb b/srt2txt.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+require "srt"
+require "sanitize"
+
+REJECT_LINES = [/Best watched using Open Subtitles MKV Player/,
+  /Subtitles downloaded from www.OpenSubtitles.org/, /^Subtitles by/,
+  /www.tvsubtitles.net/, /[email protected]/, /addic7ed/, /allsubs.org/,
+  /www.seriessub.com/, /www.transcripts.subtitle.me.uk/, /~ Bad Wolf Team/,
+  /^Transcript by/, /^Update by /, /UKsubtitles.ru/
+]
+
+fname = ARGV[0]
+file = SRT::File.parse(File.new(fname))
+file.lines.each do |line|
+  txt = line.text.reject do |l|
+    if l =~ /^OK/ # OK. et al.
+      false
+    elsif l =~ /(\?\.!)$/ # keeps screaming, includes some sounds
+      false
+    else
+      l =~ /^[^a-z]*$/ # Reject all-upcase lines to remove sound descriptions
+    end
+  end
+  txt = txt.join(" ").encode("UTF-8")
+  txt.gsub!(" .", ".") # . . . ellipsis
+  txt.gsub!("\u0092", "'") # RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK apostrophe
+  txt = txt.strip.squeeze(" ")
+
+  next if txt.empty?
+  next if REJECT_LINES.any? { |expr| expr =~ txt }
+
+  puts Sanitize.clean(txt)
+end
+puts