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I'm wondering if it's possible to download subtitles for the TED talks for offline viewing.

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Parsing and Converting TED Talks JSON Subtitles.

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  • Think you need to check with TED for that. The talks are available in many languages, but that's as part of the flash experience, so I can't see how to extract the subtitles. Nice idea though. Dec 23, 2009 at 8:50
  • See github.com/oxplot/ted2mkv It lets you download a TED talk to an mkv file with all the subtitles/metadata embedded in it.
    – Mansour
    Dec 16, 2012 at 5:19

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This is not an answer just a hint . I have found the URL which loads the related file like this , and its in JSON format.

http://www.ted.com/talks/titles/id/451/lang/hin

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  • It's http://www.ted.com/talks/subtitles/id/451/lang/hin but thanks very much for the tip! I'm going to see how I can convert those to a compatible format now.
    – Alix Axel
    Dec 23, 2009 at 18:28
  • Are you saying it's both not a hint nor an answer?
    – random
    Dec 24, 2009 at 3:07
  • ha ha , Fixed :)
    – ukanth
    Dec 24, 2009 at 10:13
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I made a app to solve this:

http://tedtalksubtitledownload.appspot.com

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  • Well, now it doesn't work Oct 22, 2010 at 8:28
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    should be working now, @develop7.
    – eordano
    Sep 15, 2011 at 13:17
  • It does not work for now.
    – lauhub
    Apr 3, 2014 at 12:57
  • fixed again! it stopped working because of TED's ui changes
    – eordano
    May 2, 2014 at 23:29
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Just paste this URL:

http://www.ted.com/talks/subtitles/id/33/lang/en

  • change 33 to the correct topic id
  • change en to the language you require

into json-csv.com

and you will be able to download a nicely formatted spreadsheet of the subtitles per time stamp.

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