Re: Updating the IceTV grabber for possible inclusion in the XMLTV project

On 6/26/2017 11:45 PM, Daniel Hall wrote:
> In our feed we have included a custom DTD which is an extension of the 
> XMLTV DTD adding a couple of elements and defining a couple of new 
> episode-num schemes, however when attempting to run the 
> tv_validate_grabber script it comes back with validity errors on these 
> new elements. Does the grabber script only use the official XMLTV DTD? 
> and if so is there a way to extend that in any official way?

Can you be a bit more specific on what your DTD changes?  I wouldn't 
think a episode_num name would be validated.  Changing the *format* of a 
value would, because it could break apps.

> My other concern is that IceTV is a paid service, so an email address 
> and password is required to setup the grabber (we have some 
> explanation of this in the configuration steps), but for ongoing 
> validation without an account it would not be able to be configured. 
> Has this come up in the past with other grabbers, and is there a 
> possible way around this?

The Schedules Direct grabbers ( tv_grab_na_dd, tv_grab_zz_sdjon, 
tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite)  solve this by creating a creating an account 
for the XMLTV validation app.  The config file is not part of the 
distribution and so the password is only known to the person who runs 
the tester.. (which is Chris Butler, but seems to be down. I think Nick 
was looking into taking it over)

Robert


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