Load an SRT file
This example loads an SRT file remotely from the server with an AJAX request and parse it with a 3rd-party library called subtitles-parser.
<iframe id="video" width="100%" height="400" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fGPPfZIvtCw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe> <script src="static/vendor/youtube.external.subtitle/youtube.external.subtitle.js"></script> <script src="static/vendor/subtitles-parser/subtitles.parser.js"></script> <script> var loadSRT = function(url, callback) { var httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest(); httpRequest.onreadystatechange = function() { if (httpRequest.readyState === XMLHttpRequest.DONE) { var subtitles = parser.fromSrt(httpRequest.responseText, true); for (var i in subtitles) { subtitles[i] = { start : subtitles[i].startTime / 1000, end : subtitles[i].endTime / 1000, text : subtitles[i].text }; } callback(subtitles); } }; httpRequest.open('GET', url, true); httpRequest.send(null); }; loadSRT('static/srt/kung_fu_panda_3_trailer.srt', function(subtitles) { var youtubeExternalSubtitle = new YoutubeExternalSubtitle.Subtitle(document.getElementById('video'), subtitles); }); </script>