How to generate a URL for SRT/VTT files?

Berkay Atatop
Dec 15, 2021

In this article, I will be showing an easy method to create a URL of your SRT or VTT files. I will be using a free service, GitHub Gist. With Gist, you can easily generate URLs of your text files. Here is a step by step explanation:

1. Go to GitHub Gist
2. Sign-up, or Login to your GitHub account
3. Go to GitHub Gist again. It should look like this:

   

4. ​Fill out the page with your subtitle file. Here is an example below:

   

5. Click on "Create secret gist".
6. On the next page, click on the “Raw” button.

   

7. The next page is the URL of your SRT/VTT file. You can use it for your website.

   

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Berkay Atatop
Dec 15, 2021