Python requests.get returns Gibberish

Question

I'm trying to scrape the following URL:

link='https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitleserve/sub/6646133'

When I do

html = requests.get(link)

it returns in

html.content

Gibberish (starting at b'PK\\x03\\x04\\x14\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x08\\x00z\\x8c8Q\\xd5H\\xc5\\xd7\\xaf7\\x00\\x00\\xdf\\x95\\x00\\x00^\\x00\\x00\\x00 ...)

Why I'm not getting clear text?

Answer 1

You can use zipfile to unzip it and then check the filenames. If you are interested in extracting the srt files, the following will get the content :

import requests, zipfile, io

r = requests.get("https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitleserve/sub/6646133",
    headers = {
        "referer": "https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/6646133/america-s-got-talent-audition-1-en"
})
z = zipfile.ZipFile(io.BytesIO(r.content))
filenames = z.namelist()
print(filenames)
srt_files = [t for t in filenames if t.endswith(".srt")]
for t in srt_files:
    content = z.read(t)
    print(content)

run it on repl.it