subscene-dl.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Usage: subscene-dl <subscene url> > file.srt

Example:

subscene-dl https://subscene.com/subtitles/mr-mercedes-second-season/english/1864622 > Mr.Mercedes.S02E09.WEBRip.x264-ION10.srt
"""
from lxml import html
import requests
import sys
import zipfile
from io import BytesIO

page = requests.get(sys.argv[1])
dl = html.fromstring(page.content).xpath('//*[@id="downloadButton"]')
dl_url = 'http://www.subscene.com' + dl[0].get('href')

with zipfile.ZipFile(BytesIO(requests.get(dl_url).content), 'r') as zf:
    sys.stdout.buffer.write(zf.read(zf.namelist()[0]))