Re: new alpha windows xmltv.exe

Hi

On 02.01.21 03:44, Robert Eden wrote:
>   * It's big.. about 25M!

Nowadays not a real problem anymore, right?
>   * Takes about 30 seconds the first time it's run to unpack the zip
>     file (which hangs around in %TEMP% so is fast after that)

Ah ok, that was the issue - that part must be mentioned otherwise people 
will try to kill the shell window

> http://xmltv.org/alpha/xmltv.exe

I just had a few minutes for testing (and could do another test run 
tomorrow) on Windows 10 64bit.

A few initial findings:

(1) the exe is executable:


C:\Users\carsten\Downloads>xmltv.exe
Timezone is +0100
you must specify the program to run
     for example: C:\Users\carsten\Downloads\xmltv.exe tv_grab_fi 
--configure
Valid commands are:
     tv_augment           tv_grab_fi_sv        tv_grep
     tv_augment_tz        tv_grab_fr           tv_imdb
     tv_cat               tv_grab_huro         tv_merge
     tv_count             tv_grab_is           tv_remove_some_overlapping
     tv_extractinfo_ar    tv_grab_it           tv_sort
     tv_extractinfo_en    tv_grab_na_dd        tv_split
     tv_find_grabbers     tv_grab_na_dtv       tv_to_latex
     tv_grab_ar           tv_grab_na_tvmedia   tv_to_potatoe
     tv_grab_ch_search    tv_grab_tr           tv_to_text
     tv_grab_combiner     tv_grab_uk_bleb      tv_validate_file
     tv_grab_eu_epgdata   tv_grab_uk_tvguide   tv_validate_grabber
     tv_grab_eu_xmltvse   tv_grab_zz_sdjson
     tv_grab_fi           tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite

(2) curl, Net::HTTP or whatever should be used, does not seem to work 
for me on the first run:

C:\Users\carsten\Downloads>xmltv.exe  tv_grab_eu_xmltvse --configure
Timezone is +0100
request failed at 
C:\Users\carsten\AppData\Local\Temp\par-6361727374656e\cache-c6912340068e4c710e8cc18a1da5696f05c9ddd6\inc/script/tv_grab_eu_xmltvse 
line 271.

(3) On the second run, more progress but similar issue a tad later in 
the code:

C:\Users\carsten\Downloads>xmltv.exe  tv_grab_eu_xmltvse --configure --debug
Timezone is +0100
Choose one of the countries this grabber provides.
Country:
0: Austria
1: Croatia
2: Denmark
3: Estonia
4: Finland
5: Germany
6: Hungary
7: Latvia
8: Lithuania
9: Netherlands
10: Norway
11: Poland
12: Sweden
13: Switzerland
14: All Radio stations
15: All TV Channels
Select one: [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15 (default=0)] 5
tv_grab_eu_xmltvse uses a cache with files that it has already 
downloaded. Please specify where the cache shall be stored.
Directory to store the cache in: [C:\Users\carsten/.xmltv/cache]
Failed to fetch https://xmltv.xmltv.se/channels-Germany.xml.gz at 
C:\Users\carsten\AppData\Local\Temp\par-6361727374656e\cache-c6912340068e4c710e8cc18a1da5696f05c9ddd6\inc/script/tv_grab_eu_xmltvse 
line 400.

Does that help a bit?

Cheers

Carsten