deepl-srt

Use Selenium to automate translation of a Chinese srt to English on Deepl website. Enter the path of your srt folder and every srt will be translated. The input srt must be in UTF-8 format and not have empty lines. If needed, use SubtitleEdit > tools > fix common errors > remove empty lines

Installation

You need Chrome and download chromedriver and put it in the driver_path which is C:\Program Files (x86). You need Python 3.6 or greater because I wrote f-strings in the code which is not a feature on older Python versions. I currently use Python 3.9

pip install selenium
pip install pyperclip

Usage example

python deeplv4.py

No future updates

If the website ever gets a redesign then the script will break. Just right click inspect for any new css classes like if the button is found inside a different container or the button css got renamed.

Note this script is for Windows users

Ctrl C and Ctrl V is the copy paste command for Windows users. That's what I wrote the code to do. For MacOS users you need to change the copy paste command inside the code.

References

Thanks to the towardsdatascience article on using Selenium and deepL to automate the translation of PowerPoint files