diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/subtitles.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/subtitles.py
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--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/subtitles.py
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@@ -1,99 +0,0 @@
-from __future__ import unicode_literals
-from .common import InfoExtractor
-
-from ..compat import compat_str
-from ..utils import (
-    ExtractorError,
-)
-
-
-class SubtitlesInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
-    @property
-    def _have_to_download_any_subtitles(self):
-        return any([self._downloader.params.get('writesubtitles', False),
-                    self._downloader.params.get('writeautomaticsub')])
-
-    def _list_available_subtitles(self, video_id, webpage):
-        """ outputs the available subtitles for the video """
-        sub_lang_list = self._get_available_subtitles(video_id, webpage)
-        auto_captions_list = self._get_available_automatic_caption(video_id, webpage)
-        sub_lang = ",".join(list(sub_lang_list.keys()))
-        self.to_screen('%s: Available subtitles for video: %s' %
-                       (video_id, sub_lang))
-        auto_lang = ",".join(auto_captions_list.keys())
-        self.to_screen('%s: Available automatic captions for video: %s' %
-                       (video_id, auto_lang))
-
-    def extract_subtitles(self, video_id, webpage):
-        """
-        returns {sub_lang: sub} ,{} if subtitles not found or None if the
-        subtitles aren't requested.
-        """
-        if not self._have_to_download_any_subtitles:
-            return None
-        available_subs_list = {}
-        if self._downloader.params.get('writeautomaticsub', False):
-            available_subs_list.update(self._get_available_automatic_caption(video_id, webpage))
-        if self._downloader.params.get('writesubtitles', False):
-            available_subs_list.update(self._get_available_subtitles(video_id, webpage))
-
-        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('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 sub_lang not in available_subs_list:
-                    self._downloader.report_warning('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 _download_subtitle_url(self, sub_lang, url):
-        return self._download_webpage(url, None, note=False)
-
-    def _request_subtitle_url(self, sub_lang, url):
-        """ makes the http request for the subtitle """
-        try:
-            sub = self._download_subtitle_url(sub_lang, url)
-        except ExtractorError as err:
-            self._downloader.report_warning('unable to download video subtitles for %s: %s' % (sub_lang, compat_str(err)))
-            return
-        if not sub:
-            self._downloader.report_warning('Did not fetch video subtitles')
-            return
-        return sub
-
-    def _get_available_subtitles(self, video_id, webpage):
-        """
-        returns {sub_lang: url} or {} if not available
-        Must be redefined by the subclasses
-        """
-
-        # By default, allow implementations to simply pass in the result
-        assert isinstance(webpage, dict), \
-            '_get_available_subtitles not implemented'
-        return webpage
-
-    def _get_available_automatic_caption(self, video_id, webpage):
-        """
-        returns {sub_lang: url} or {} if not available
-        Must be redefined by the subclasses that support automatic captions,
-        otherwise it will return {}
-        """
-        self._downloader.report_warning('Automatic Captions not supported by this server')
-        return {}