Usage as a nautilus script

Installation as a nautilus script, using nautilus

• Download latest version from the release page

• Extract "OpenSubtitlesDownload.py" into the nautilus-scripts folder

  • Using GNOME you can find (or create) this folder at '~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts'
  • or find it with nautilus, by "right-clicking" a folder or a file, Scripts → Open scripts folder (Note: The submenu 'Scripts' only appears once you have at least one script in the scripts directory)

• Make it executable (right-click on the script file, Properties → Permissions → Allow executing file as program)

Installation as a nautilus script, using a terminal

• Download latest version from the release page

• Extract "OpenSubtitlesDownload.py"

Installation under GNOME desktop environment

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts
cp OpenSubtitlesDownload.py ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/OpenSubtitlesDownload.py
chmod u+x ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/OpenSubtitlesDownload.py

Using OpenSubtitlesDownload.py

In a nautilus windows, right click on any video file, then click on Scripts → OpenSubtitlesDownload.py

It will show you a list of subtitles found on www.opensubtitles.com for the selected video. Choose the one you want, and it will be downloaded and saved with the same name as the video (and with the correct file extension too!).

Your media player will now detect automatically the subtitles when playing your video.