Re: tv_grab_ch_search does not work anymore

On 06.01.2016 17:11, Fr. Herbers wrote:
> Hello
>
> Since the beginning of this year tv_grab_ch_search does not work
> anymore. It finishes very quickly, and the result is empty. It complains
> the channels are not available anymore.
>
> Does somebody have the same problem?

I can reproduce the issue, it appears to have started last night
according to http://www.crustynet.org.uk/~xmltv-tester/squeeze/release/

The grabber was last updated six months ago.
http://xmltv.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xmltv/xmltv/grab/ch_search/tv_grab_ch_search.in?view=log

Seeing that the last change was the switch to a legacy URL after
changes to the main site the breakage was to be expected.

> Did the homepage of http://tv.search.ch/ change, and there for the
> grabber does not work anymore?

That appears to be the case.

Depending on your use case you may be able to switch to the guide feed
from xmltv.se / tv_grab_eu_dotmedia which covers swiss and german
channels, too.

Or someone can fix the grabber.

Or someone can ask search.ch if they mind adding a proper API for
private and non-commercial consumption of the guide. Then a grabber
could be written for this which will not break when they change their
website. (After looking at their terms of service they don't mind
scraping or private non-commercial reproduction, so its worth a try)

Regards,
Karl

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