2017-06-11, 17:10
Updated versions of both add-ons are now available:
Internet Archive [Audio] - v 3.0.8
Internet Archive [Video] - v 3.0.8
Both add-ons should be quite a bit faster to load items. I've seen a decrease in load times from ~90 seconds in previous versions down to ~20 seconds in the current versions. In order to accomplish this, the add-on will no longer scrape plot info or recording lineage and descriptions on the first scrape. This info can be displayed for individual items (if available on the site) via options I've added to the context menu. See the screenshots below for examples.
Archive.org isn't the fastest website to load, so I think this might be the best I can get at this time. Additionally, they do frequent maintenance to the site (at least once a week), so there will be times when the add-on throws a script failed error. I've tried to add some error handling to catch this, and display a more meaningful error if there's a time out or site unavailable error, but I just haven't yet got it right. More often than not though, a script failed error will be the result of either a time out or site maintenance.
I've also had some success in improving the search function. It seems that at some point Archive.org changed the way the search parameters are included in the url, so I've made some adjustments in the code that seem make the search function more accurate and useful.
Hopefully, I've not introduced any new bugs, but if I have, please provide a link to a debug log (wiki) and I'll look into it as soon as possible. The add-on should still function on any version above Helix.
Any and all feedback is welcome and appreciated.
Internet Archive [Audio] - v 3.0.8
Internet Archive [Video] - v 3.0.8
Both add-ons should be quite a bit faster to load items. I've seen a decrease in load times from ~90 seconds in previous versions down to ~20 seconds in the current versions. In order to accomplish this, the add-on will no longer scrape plot info or recording lineage and descriptions on the first scrape. This info can be displayed for individual items (if available on the site) via options I've added to the context menu. See the screenshots below for examples.
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Archive.org isn't the fastest website to load, so I think this might be the best I can get at this time. Additionally, they do frequent maintenance to the site (at least once a week), so there will be times when the add-on throws a script failed error. I've tried to add some error handling to catch this, and display a more meaningful error if there's a time out or site unavailable error, but I just haven't yet got it right. More often than not though, a script failed error will be the result of either a time out or site maintenance.
I've also had some success in improving the search function. It seems that at some point Archive.org changed the way the search parameters are included in the url, so I've made some adjustments in the code that seem make the search function more accurate and useful.
Hopefully, I've not introduced any new bugs, but if I have, please provide a link to a debug log (wiki) and I'll look into it as soon as possible. The add-on should still function on any version above Helix.
Any and all feedback is welcome and appreciated.
