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diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/subtitles.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/subtitles.py
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+import socket
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+
+from ..utils import (
+    compat_http_client,
+    compat_urllib_error,
+    compat_urllib_request,
+    compat_str,
+)
+
+
+class SubtitlesIE(InfoExtractor):
+
+    def _list_available_subtitles(self, video_id):
+        """ outputs the available subtitles for the video """
+        sub_lang_list = self._get_available_subtitles(video_id)
+        sub_lang = ",".join(list(sub_lang_list.keys()))
+        self.to_screen(u'%s: Available subtitles for video: %s' %
+                       (video_id, sub_lang))
+
+    def _extract_subtitles(self, video_id):
+        """ returns {sub_lang: sub} or {} if subtitles not found """
+        available_subs_list = self._get_available_subtitles(video_id)
+        if not available_subs_list:  # error, it didn't get the available subtitles
+            return {}
+        if self._downloader.params.get('allsubtitles', False):
+            sub_lang_list = available_subs_list
+        else:
+            if self._downloader.params.get('writesubtitles', False):
+                if self._downloader.params.get('subtitleslangs', False):
+                    requested_langs = self._downloader.params.get('subtitleslangs')
+                elif 'en' in available_subs_list:
+                    requested_langs = ['en']
+                else:
+                    requested_langs = [list(available_subs_list.keys())[0]]
+
+                sub_lang_list = {}
+                for sub_lang in requested_langs:
+                    if not sub_lang in available_subs_list:
+                        self._downloader.report_warning(u'no closed captions found in the specified language "%s"' % sub_lang)
+                        continue
+                    sub_lang_list[sub_lang] = available_subs_list[sub_lang]
+
+        subtitles = {}
+        for sub_lang, url in sub_lang_list.items():
+            subtitle = self._request_subtitle_url(sub_lang, url)
+            if subtitle:
+                subtitles[sub_lang] = subtitle
+        return subtitles
+
+    def _request_subtitle_url(self, sub_lang, url):
+        """ makes the http request for the subtitle """
+        try:
+            sub = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(url).read().decode('utf-8')
+        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
+            self._downloader.report_warning(u'unable to download video subtitles for %s: %s' % (sub_lang, compat_str(err)))
+            return
+        if not sub:
+            self._downloader.report_warning(u'Did not fetch video subtitles')
+            return
+        return sub
+
+    def _get_available_subtitles(self, video_id):
+        """ returns {sub_lang: url} or {} if not available """
+        """ Must be redefined by the subclasses """
+        pass
+
+    def _request_automatic_caption(self, video_id, webpage):
+        """ returns {sub_lang: sub} or {} if not available """
+        """ Must be redefined by the subclasses """
+        pass
+
+
+class NoAutoSubtitlesIE(SubtitlesIE):
+    """ A subtitle class for the servers that don't support auto-captions"""
+
+    def _request_automatic_caption(self, video_id, webpage):
+        self._downloader.report_warning(u'Automatic Captions not supported by this server')
+        return {}