srt_parser

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# don't use this crazy code

import itertools
import argparse
import bs4

def parser(file):
    with open(file) as srt_fd:
        srt = srt_fd.read()
    lines = [line for line in srt.splitlines() if line.strip()]
    html = ''.join(subtitle[2] for subtitle in zip(*[iter(lines)]*3))
    subtitle = ''.join(element.text for element in bs4.BeautifulSoup(html, 'lxml').find_all('p'))
    return subtitle

if __name__ == '__main__':
    arguments = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    arguments.add_argument('file', help='SRT input file', action='store')
    args = arguments.parse_args()
    text = parser(args.file)
    print(text)