pitsi
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9 months ago Sorry fot the late reply, I had a very busy day yesterday.
First things first. Creating credentials for a service is something I would do if there was a real benefit for it. For instance, as a linux user who dual boots for a few windows apps, I have found an online service which provides me with similar functionality for one single app. The times this has saved me from rebooting are now countless, so yes, there was a benefit to creating credentials for it. But back then, the only reason for creating credentials on o.s. org was kodi. As I had shown above, o.s. org demanded credentials for no other app except kodi.
Fast forward to today. This is the... pricelist of the new api. A dev who uses it says that it's 20 downloads per day for a simple user that has not uploaded anything there and that it increases accordingly for ones that do. What it does not say is that the api allows a very small number of anonymous downloads per day. Is it documented anywhere? No, because if it was, how would the user be forced to create new creadentials fot the new api? https://opensubtitles.stoplight.io/docs/opensubtitles-api/f65bc8dd4aef7-api-subscription-prices
After that come the suggestions I showed above and it is a proof that the api does track what the user downloads.
Moreover, and although 20 downloads per day seems enough to me, it may be too little for cases that someone runs into asynced subs or automatically translated. I assume that the devs did not think of that, but they did think how to limit bot access... Long story short, the only compeling reason for someone to accept the formentioned behaviors and use the api is the huge variety of subtitles that it offers. Nothing more, nothing less. But this has always been the case.
Last but not least, and this is dedicated to all those users here and on the kodi forums who were like "omg piracy omg" when I posted screenshots of my "achievement". Back then the .org site had 2 links to piracy related sites at the very top of the frontpage! So yea, miss me with these fake ethics.
As the title describes, I get this error since yesterday and the addon finds no subtitles. What is worse is that there is nothing relevant reported in kodi's log! I assume that the login credentials are now mandatory, so this version of the addon is completely useless. If there are no plans on fixing it, please announce that it will longer works and close this repo completely.
As a user, I refuse to make any credentials for the site so as to use them with the other addon. The reason is simple: the opensubtitles api is used by tons of players, e.g. vlc, mpc, popcorntime, smplayer and so on, yet it demands credentials on kodi ONLY, which is simply unacceptable.