# History

## 0.4.3 (22-11-2019) Few improvements

- Parsing improvements, thanks to @sontek (#18)
- Add support for reading content from a file-like object, thanks to @omerholz (#23)
- Documentation fixes thanks to @sontek (#22) and @netcmcc (#24)

## 0.4.2 (08-06-2018) Rename of modules and usability improvements

- Renamed and reorganized few of the modules
- Parsing methods are now class methods: read, from_srt and from_sbv
- Improved usability with the addition of shortcuts to avoid instantiating the classes so we can do:

import webvtt

webvtt.read(‘captions.vtt’) # this will return a WebVTT instance

## 0.4.1 (24-12-2017) Hot fix on cue identifiers

- Support for saving cue identifiers

## 0.4.0 (18-09-2017) Refactor and parse compatibility

The main goal of this release is a refactor of the WebVTT parser to be able to parse easier and give support to new features of the format.

New features:

- Support for cue identifiers
- Support for parsing WebVTT captions with comments
- Support for parsing WebVTT captions with Style blocks
- Support for BOM in caption files
- Added method to write the captions to an opened file
- Convert WebVTT to SRT format
- Ignore empty captions in SRT format

Other:

- Refactored WebVTT parser

## 0.3.3 (23-08-2017) Hot fix on cue tags

The text for the caption is now returned clean (tags removed). The cue text could contain tags like: * timestamp tags: <00:19.000> * class tags: <c.classname>text</c> * and others… Important: It currently removes any tag present in the cue text. For example <b> would be removed.

Also a new attribute is available on captions to retrieve the text without cleaning tags: raw_text

## 0.3.2 (11-08-2017) Hot fix for compatibility

The goal of this release if to allow the WebVTT parser to be able to read caption files that contain metadata headers that extend to more than one line.

## 0.3.1 (08-08-2017) Compatibility updates

- Made hours in WebVTT parser optional as per specs.
- Added support to parse WebVTT files that contain metadata headers.

## 0.3.0 (02-06-2016) YouTube SBV

New features:

- Added support for YouTube SBV captions.
- Added easy iteration to WebVTT class.
- New CLI command for segmenting captions for HLS.

Other:

- Improved parsers to reuse functionality.
- Added an exception for invalid timestamps in captions.
- Added an exception when saving without a filename.

## 0.2.0 (23-05-2016) Module refactor

- Refactor of the main module and parsers.

## 0.1.0 (20-05-2016) First release

This module is released with the following initial features:

- Read/Edit/Write WebVTT captions.
- Read SRT captions and convert to WebVTT.
- Segment WebVTT files for captioning HLS video.