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Zellero
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Problems with grabbing data from TV.com

Hello

I'm having issues grabbing EPG data from TV.com. I'm getting an error message saying :

Unable to update channel Home & Garden Television (East) (HGTV)
[Critical] Generic syntax exception:
[Critical]    message:
[Error   ] no index page data received from Home & Garden Television (East) (HGTV)

What am i doing wrong?

Zellero
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Great, thanks Blackbear199 for your support. Will give it a try when i'm at home tonight. What was wrong in the tv.com.ini?

jazzbox
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Thanks, Bear.  Solved my problem as well.

dgmcdnld
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Thank you from me as well!  smiley

 

 

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Tried this and now getting some channels but most just give "no shows in indexpage!" It also now deletes the contents on my tv.com.cookies.txt file. Am I missing something obvious?

V2.1, Windows 10

 

[  Info  ] (   5/149 ) TV.COM -- chan. (xmltv_id=SPSO) -- mode Force
[Error   ] no shows in indexpage!
[  Info  ]
[  Debug ]

 

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Lincsat
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I used 30301 and DirecTV with local channels to generate the cookies file. I'm now trying a cookie file I found in the forum edited for that zip and provider and it seems to be working better. It's still scanning, hopefully this will be OK now - here's the log in progress.

 

I'm actually in the UK, so maybe the cookie file I generated has a problem, I've attached the created and downloaded cookie file if it helps anyone

kirkydman
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Hi Blackbear, where is the best place to grab USA channels from, in particular the sports, never done it before, cheers

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True Blackbear199, more and more sites are hardening their servers so epg cannot be grabbed. Another problem is that every user is grabbing also daily, instead of grabbing like every 3-4 days, so a server can have thousands connections all togheter, which is not what these sites want.

 

 

encode
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base64

aHR0cDovL3d3dy50di5jb20vbGlzdGluZ3Mv

=http://www.tv.com/listings/

encode
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not really an ini i use tbh,just thought id point out its base 64, could it just be added to the channels.xml?

encode
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is it the secure url in the javascript?

encode
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seems to grab tried a few channels

encode
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no but you can use the website to choose channels by id 

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