Re: Current grabber failures

On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 14:56, Geoff Westcott <[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks for looking over these, esp tv_grab_is

> On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 14:42:29 +0000, Nick Morrott wrote:
>
> > After a round of userland grabber testing today (Debian unstable,
> > current git), I'm seeing 'graberror' failures in the following
> > grabbers:
> >
> > tv_grab_dtv_la
> > - possibly because I'm geoblocked, can't test otherwise. There is a GH
> > issue about this.

Quite clear there is (geo)(IP)blocking going on, but as yet no replies
from the mailing list about its status.

Release status: Enabled, pending confirmation of service

> > tv_grab_es_laguiatv
> > - could not fetch http://www.laguiatv.com/programacion/tve-1-807.html,
> > error: 400 Bad Request, aborting
>
> All pages return 400. May be geoblocked?

Based on the error I receive visiting www.laguiatv.com, it looks like
an Akamai configuration issue:

Invalid URL
The requested URL "[no URL]", is invalid.

Release status: Disabled, pending review/removal.

https://www.tvguia.es/ looks like a possible replacement if laguiatv
does not return.

> > tv_grab_in_toi
> > - malformed JSON string, neither tag, array, object, number, string or
> > atom, at character offset 0 (before "(end of string)") at
> > /usr/bin/tv_grab_in_toi line 208.
>
> Looks like toi has gone away:
> https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tvschannellist.cms?genrename=all
> returns "sorry"
>
> Maybe it's just geoblocked?

Nope. From https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/tvlistings:

"We are currently not showing schedule information."

Release status: Disabled, pending review/removal.

> > tv_grab_is
> > - Wide character in print at
> > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.28/IO/Handle.pm line 157.
> > - could not fetch
> > http://www.stod2.is/XML--dagskrar-feed/XML-Stod-2-dagskra-vikunnar,
> > error: 404 Not Found, aborting
>
> Of the 3 sources within tv_grab_is it looks like one has gone subcription only and one has lost the xml feed. So only 1 channel (RUV; RUV+1) is left working in this grabber.

Non-RUV channels easily disabled in grabber and test config.

Release status: Active, grabber and test configuration updated.

> > tv_grab_nl
> > - could not fetch http://www.tvgids.nl/json/lists/channels.php, error:
> > 404 Not Found, aborting
>
> Looks broken. I can't find where the json pages have gone.

The guide is available to view at https://www.tvgids.nl/gids/

I have not investigated further to check the underlying source of
data. Grabber would need updating in any case.

Release status: Disabled, pending review.

> > The following grabbers report 'noprogrammes' (could be down to test.conf)
> >
> > tv_grab_fr_kazer

The upstream service no longer seems to be providing listings, despite
allowing account signup and initial channel configuration. Downloading
listings directly from the site contains no <programme> elements (as
reported by test_grabbers) but does list the configured channels.

Release status: Disabled, pending removal.

> > tv_grab_se_swedb
>
> The channel list file on the source site ( http://xmltv.tvsajten.com/ ) is out of date, which means many of the channels no longer fetch. (Some are ok, others not).

Release status: Active, test configuration updated.


Additionally:

tv_grab_eu_dotmedia
  Test configuration updated.

tv_grab_tr
  Test configuration updated.


Thanks,
Nick