= API Deprecated =

***!OpenSubtitles.org API is deprecated and not possible to register new user agents anymore, we plan to turn off !OpenSubtitles.org API by the end of 2023. Please use new, stable ready-to-use [https://www.opensubtitles.com/docs/api/html/index.htm Open Subtitles REST API] instead. ***

=== Introduction ===
[http://www.opensubtitles.org OpenSubtitles.org] was developed for easy downloading and uploading subtitles for movies. It supports some unique functions:
 * download/upload/search subtitles by [wiki:OSDb OSDb protocol] using special [wiki:HashSourceCodes Hash]
 * biggest multi-language subtitle database (website available in more than 30 languages)
 * no registration needed to download or upload subtitles
 * advanced search (by genre, imdb rating, year...)
 * search for more than one language
 * search for many subtitles simultaneously ([http://www.opensubtitles.org/multisearch multi-search])
 * get search results by [wiki:GetSearchResults mail or rss/atom]
 * site is "open" (you can get [wiki:PageInXML every page as XML])
 * support for third party applications (no need to visit webpage for downloading subtitles)
 * Media Player Classic [http://blog.opensubtitles.org/opensubtitlesorg/downloading-subtitles-using-mpc ISDb support]
 * can act as a subtitle server for other subtitle sites
 * we are looking for your feature requests (site is still in development, use this trac to report new ideas, bugs...)

=== Programs using !OpenSubtitles API ===
 * [wiki:ProgramsUsingAPI Programs using OpenSubtitles.org API]

=== Developers ===
 * [wiki:DevReadFirst Read First Please]
 * [wiki:OSDb OSDb protocol]
 * [wiki:XMLRPC XML RPC API Documentation], [wiki:XmlRpcIntro enhanced version] (work in progress)
 * [wiki:HashSourceCodes Hash Source Codes] - you don't have to reinvent the wheel 
 * [wiki:RarSourceCodes Rar Source Codes] (for reading RAR archives with ''store'' compression)
 * [wiki:MovieIdentification Movie Identification]

=== Links ===
 * [http://www.opensubtitles.org OS Home Page]
 * [http://forum.opensubtitles.org OS Forum]
 * [http://blog.opensubtitles.org OS Blog]
 * [http://urd.let.rug.nl/tiedeman/OPUS/ OPUS - Open Source Parallel Corpus]