Re: tv_grab_pt takes many hours to complete

Thank you for replying.

On 07-07-2015 13:00, [email protected] wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2015 11:33:33 +0100, José Silva wrote:
>>
>> Now, I just upgraded to xmltv 5.66, and tv_grab_pt v1.56 takes more than
>> one hour for each day, although it grabs correctly.
>>
>> Is this normal? Else, can somebody help me?
>
> That doesn't surprise me. tv_grab_pt gets the programme's description from a call to a sub-page. Thus for *every* programme in the schedule it will require a separate http request (to an already sluggish website). If you can live without descriptions (or just as a test) you can try the '--fast' option to tv_grab_pt which will not do these supplementary requests.
>

You're right, the --fast option, although not lightning fast, is 
absolutely acceptable; it takes only a few minutes for one day of epg 
for more than 100 channels.

But, on the other hand, descriptions are very desirable. I'll have to 
decide if I just leave it running through the night.

> tv_grab_pt will never be as fast as tv_grab_pt_meo since the latter gets pre-digested data from an XML file (i.e. no sluggish web pages to deal with).

I hope nos.pt change it one of these days.

> You really shouldn't be getting 7 days worth of data every day. A better retrieval plan is "today + tomorrow + new day 7", then you are only getting 3 days worth. In my experience the schedule on the days in between rarely changes (YMMV).

This is a good tip, thank you.

> Cheers,
> Geoff

Rgds,
jss

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