Fast and rough mean WPM approx using vtt files and meta info for approximation

FasterRoughMeanWPM.py

import youtube_dl
import time
import re
import requests
import os

def downSub(video_url,language):
    # check if valid youtube_link and remove playlist ID from url if exists.
    _temp = video_url.lower()
    if 'youtube.com' in _temp or 'youtu.be' in _temp:
        if '&list=' in video_url:
            video_url = video_url.split('&list=')[0].strip()

    ydl_opts = {'dump-json':True,
     'writesubtitles':True,
     'writeautomaticsub':True,
     'youtube_include_dash_manifest':False}
    try:
        with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as (ydl):
            info_dict = ydl.extract_info(video_url, download=False)
            #print(info_dict)
            if not info_dict['formats']:
                print(text=' Status : Something went wrong retry or video is unavailable')
                return
    except:
        print('Error : Check your Internet Connection or Url.')
        return

    video_title = info_dict['title']

    # replacing reserved characters for windows for filename.
    video_name = re.sub('[\\\\/*?:"<>|]', '', video_title)

    subtitles = info_dict.get('subtitles')
    automatic_captions = info_dict.get('automatic_captions')

    if subtitles:
        subtitle = subtitles.get(language)
        if subtitle:
            for fmt in subtitle:
                if fmt['ext']=='vtt':
                    sub_dlink = fmt['url']
                    return [sub_dlink,video_name]

    if automatic_captions:
        subtitle = automatic_captions.get(language)
        if subtitle:
            for fmt in subtitle:
                if fmt['ext']=='vtt':
                    sub_dlink = fmt['url']
                    return [sub_dlink,video_name]

def main():
    # put your code here
    ydl_opts = {
        'writesubtitles': True,
        #'skipdownload': True,
        'writeautomaticsub': True,
        'subtitlesformat': 'vtt',
        'subtitleslangs': ['en']
    }
    with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
        Url = input('Please input a video URL: ')
        start = time.time()
        if len(Url) ==0:
            Url = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HZbaYc0qhc"
        else:
            print ('using', Url)

        info_dict = ydl.extract_info(Url, download=False)
        duration = info_dict.get('duration')
        print('The duration of the video is: ' + str(duration) + ' seconds')

    subtitle = downSub(Url, 'en')

    if subtitle: # check if not None
        r = requests.get(subtitle[0])  # subtitle[0] download url.
        with open(os.path.join('subtitles',f"{subtitle[1]}.vtt"),'wb') as f:                              # subtitle[1] video name.
            f.write(r.content)
        print('\n Subtitle Downloaded Successfully.')

    file = open(os.path.join('subtitles',f"{subtitle[1]}.vtt"))

    content = file.readlines()
    subs = content[6]
    new = re.sub(r'\d{2}\W\d{2}\W\d{2}\W\d{3}\s\W{3}\s\d{2}\W\d{2}\W\d{2}\W\d{3}','',subs)
    print(new)
    totalcount = len(new.split(' '))
    print(totalcount, 'total')

    # i=0
    # for words in subs.split('<c>'):
    #     i=i+1;
    #     print('['+str(i)+'|', end= words+'] ')

    wpm =  totalcount / (duration / 60)
    print(wpm,'wpm')

    elapsed = time.time() - start
    print(elapsed, 'seconds')
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()