Re: Empty data files again for uk-rt

Nick Morrott <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tv.xmltv.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9 September 2010 14:39, Andre <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 28 Aug 2010, at 13:27, Stephen Kitchener wrote:
>
>> >
>> > Mine seems to end some time on the 2nd September and I still can't download
>> > anything more recent.
>>
>> Mine failed here today and Thursday, it (the rt grabber) got some data on Friday, but was only up to 13 days, it failed completely today and so I have data for 12 days now.
>
> Is it down again?
>
> I built 0.5.58 a couple of days ago and it's not worked yet, I noticed (later) that it hadn't got data the day before I upgraded xmltv either.

Per the nightly validator that Robert pointed out, the Radio Times
data has been available for 7 of the last 10 days but has been down
for the last couple (the validator is sometimes a day behind depending
on when it runs). As I am sure most tv_grab_uk_rt users will know by
now, the service has been quite intermittent over the past several
weeks. This is clearly out of my hands, and all I can do is report any
problems with the service to the Radio Times and hope they get
resolved.

I currently have data out to the morning of the 20th September after a
successful retrieval on Tuesday morning at 0600, but grabber runs for
the last 2 days have had to rely on the cached listings data from
Tuesday and have not added any new listings.

tv_grab_uk_rt users failing to retrieve listings (even when the
validator is reporting success) might want to empty the listings cache
(usually ~/.xmltv/cache - or whatever is specified in the grabber
config file) to start from a known-good configuration.

Cheers,
Nick

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