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mrfeh
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Hello everybody.
For the last couple years I've been getting my EPG data via zap2it.com. The data is downloaded and processed by the zap2xml.pl perl script.
It appears as though recently (maybe 10 days ago), zap2it has changed their web interface, so the perl script is no longer able to scrape the EPG data from their web site. I don't anticipate any quick fixes by the people the originally wrote the perl script.
What other options do I have for getting (hopefully free) EPG data that tvheadend can use?
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2018-01-12, 13:37
(This post was last modified: 2018-01-12, 13:44 by K5j%EhD55.)
I tried all 3 links that I found for that site, all of them simply have a 1 and nothing else. Your fossick.tk link did work, though, I am still unable to get the latest version as the download never finishes. When I tried cached versions of the download links, they'd redirect to google. I cannot read the release notes, as all the links to the webpage still only show "1". Thanks for the download, nonetheless.
UPDATE:
I had to use a proxy to reach the webpage. Who knew.
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rykr
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Do you guys use the option to download the extra info that requires the extra trip per program? I tried on a 14 day amount of guide data and the initial query was taking like a full day to run. I eventually cancelled it. How are you guys running zap2xml?
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No, I don't use that extra info option, for exactly the reason you've given. However I believe that since the web pages were changed to the new format, Zap2xml is able to get some additional information without using that option. Be aware that Tvheadend may not recognize all of the XML elements present in the generated listings file, so there could possibly be situations where the data is there but Tvheadend doesn't know what to do with it. If that is the case you may want to try upgrading Tvheadend, if you're not running the latest version.
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rykr
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I'm not a user of zap2xml as I'm an SD subscriber. Was just curious